The history of this dispute of two hundred years' standing may conveniently be completed in the present connection. We quote from the excellent summary of it given in the Eev. Mr. Baird's " History of Eye " : After various failures to effect a settlement, New York and Connecticut selected commissioners, who met at Rye in April, 1725, and began the work of marking the boundary. They started at " the Great Stone at the Wading-place," which had been designated as the as that of 1C8-L-, point of beginning forty-one years before. Their survey was extended as far to " the Duke's Trees," at the northwest angle of the Town of Greenwich, where three white oaks had been marked as the termination of the former survey. Here the work was suspended for want of funds, and it was not resumed until the spring of 1731. The survey was the "equivalent tract " or " Oblong" was measthen completed to the Massachusettsandline; the line dividing the Province of New York from the ured and " set off to New York," Colony of Connecticut was designated by monuments at intervals of two miles. "The Great Rock at the Wading-place " may still be found at the northeastern end of the bridge crossing the Byram River. Starting at this rock, the boundary line strikes across the King Street and follows the course of that road for about two miles. At the distance of five miles from the Wading-place it crosses Blind Brook near the head of that stream at an angle which the territory of Rye. The famous " Duke's Trees " are about two miles north of terminates this point. The boundary line laid down in 1731 remained without disturbance until 1855, when the question arose as to its existing definiteness. On some portions of the line the marks had disappeared, and along the whole distance the greatest uncertainty existed.