So the starting point was fixed at the Maniaroneck's mouth, whence the boundary was to run north-northwest until it should intersect the southern line <>f Massachusetts. Here, again, great injustice was done to New York; for this north-northwest line would cut the Hudson below the Highlands, utterly dismembering the Province of New York, and giving to Connecticut all of the river above the Highlands, including the settlements at Albany and other places along the stream. Of course such a division, when its true nature became realized, could not bo submitted to. But there was no immediate occasion for a different adjustment. New York at that period was not at all disposed to claim Eye, which, from the beginning, had belonged without question to the jurisdiction of Connecticut; and as for the interior, it mattered little for the time being how far Connecticut's nominal boundary reached, as no settlements had yet been begun there, and even private proprietary interests on the pari of subjects of New York (excepting only Eichbell's patent) had not yet come into being. The whole matter was left in abeyance for nineteen years. A new boundary, substantially the one now existing, was established by articles concluded between Governor Dongan and council of New York and the governor and delegates of Connecticut on the 21th day of November, L683. Important concessions were made on both sides. New York demanded, as the fundamental thing, that the original intention of a twenty-mile distance from the Hudson should be adhered to; and, moreover, that the boundary should run north and south, or parallel to the Hudson, instead of north-northwest-- a demand to which Connecticut yielded. On the other hand, it was conceded to Connecticut that she should retain her older settlements on the Sound, extending as far westward as the limits of the Town of Greenwich, or the month of the Byram Eiver; but as this arrangement would cut off from New York a considerable ter1ritory along tin1 Sound that rightfully belonged to her under the twenty-mile agreement, tin1 deprivation thus suffered was to be com-