forced to au issue on Long Island by the stubborn attitude of the English towns there, they entered into an arrangement by which all controverted matters in that part of their diminishing realms were determined agreeably to the British interests. By this latter transaction the villages of Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, Hempstead, and Gravesend became English. The arrogant general disposition of the English in Connecticut in the closing period of the Dutch rule is described as follows by Stuyvesant iu a dispatch to the West India Company, dated November 10, 1G63: "They know no New Netherland, nor g< ivernment of New Netherland, except only the Dutch plantation on the Island of Manhattan. Tis evident and clear that were Westchester and the five English towns on Long Island surrendered by us to the Colony of Hartford, and what we have justly possessed and settled on Long Island left to us, it would not satisfy them, because it would not be possible to bring them sufficiently to any further arrangement witli us by commissioners to be chosen on both sides by the mediation of a third party; and as in case of disagreement they assert, in addition, that they may possess and occupy, in virtue of their unlimited patent, the lands lying vacant and unsettled on both sides of the North River and elsewhere, which would certainly always cause and create new pretensions and disputes, even though the boundary were provisionally settled here." The patent here referred to by Stuyvesant was one granted by Charles II. on the 23d of April, 1662, to the Colony of Connecticut, wherein the westward bounds of Connecticut were stated to be " the South Sea" -- that is, the Pacific Ocean. Tin southern bounds wore likewise fixed at " the Sea " -- meaning not the Sound, but the Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island.