"That the convenience of acce-su lo )Iorrisania from most of the parts of the United States is much more easy, safe and expeditious than to any other place as yet proposeil for the residence of Congress ; that vessels from the four Kastern States may arrive at Morrisania through the Sound, which scjiarates Long Islanil from the main, in the course of a very few hours, and that ships from the Carolinas and (ieorgia may perform voyages to Morrisania with much mure siifety and dispatch than they can to the (lortsofeither Philadelphia or .\nnapolis, not lieing incommoded with tedious imssages of two huntlred miles each up Bays and Rivers which often consume a fortnight or three weeks -- ^uissiiges rendered hazartlons by rocks and shoals, and annually olotructed by ice.

*' .\nd that 31urrisaiiia is so situated that vessels may arrive from or | proceed to sea, sometimes in six hours, and at no time <-an lie detained ' by contrary winds or tide more than 4)< hourx, and that thii passage, from the ipiantity and saltness of the water, has never been totally impeded by ice .

" That your Memorialist conceives that the health of the place proposed and the salubrity of its air are points highly worthy of attention and consideration, and that your Memorialist is therefore happy to add that '

Morrisania has always been noted for this particular, that the fever and ague is there unkuown, and that persons from other places, emaciated by sickness and disease, there shortly recover and are speedily reinstated in health and vigor.