Beginning at the mouth of the Byram River, the line, as thus decided upon in 1683, ran up that stream as far as the head of tidewater (about a mile and a half), where was a " wading-place" crossed by a road, and where stood a rock known as "The JERSEY Great Stone at the Wading-place." From this point as a natural boundary LONG ISLAND mark it went north-northwest to a distance eight miles from the Sound, which was deemed to be a reasonable VARIOUS BOUNDARY LINES, northward limit for the Connecticut Sound settlements. From here, making a right angle, the line paralleled the general course of the shore of the Sound for twelve miles. Thus the strip on the Sound set off to Connecticut formed a parallelogram eight by twelve miles. But as the eastern termination of the twelve-mile line was beyond the twenty-mile distauce from the Hudson, another north-northwest line was drawn from that termination, which, after running some eight miles, came to a point distant from the Hudson the required twenty miles. Here began the straight line to the Massachusetts border, pursuing a course parallel to the

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general direction of the Hudson River. Along these latter two sections of the boundary, the so-called kk equivalent tract " or " Oblong," having an area of 61,440 acres, was, in recompense for the Sound settlements which New York surrendered, taken from Connecticut and given to New York; and as thus rectified the whole north and south boundary line, beginning at the northeast corner of the Connecticut parallelogram, was located some two miles to the eastward of the basic twenty-mile distance originally agreed upon. The settlements on the Sound which fell to Connecticut by this determination of the boundary were five in number -- Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, New Canaan, and Norwalk.