The Town of East Hampton is bounded South-Easterly by the Atlantic Ocean, on which side the The sea gains on the shore, and it has been said by aged people that, in some places, the sea now washes the shore where Indian Corn has been planted by The sand near the shore is blown into hills on which nothing grows but a grass called their Fathers. "Beach Grass," and a shrub bearing the Beach plum. By this grass & the Bushes, the sand is, in some measure, prevented being blown over the adjacent pasture & mowing fields. shore is a sand beach free from rocks.

Easterly, the town terminates at Montauk's Point around which the Tide runs very rapidly.

Gardiners Island, or the Isle of Wight, lies on the North East side of Gardiner's Bay, and contains about

3,000 acres of good land.

Its greatest

length is from N. W. to S. E. and is about 1\ miles.

There and lies on the South part. The shape of the Island is irregular. From its first settlement in 1639, it was a plantation by itself. As the Legislature in 178S thought proper to annex it to the town of East Hampton, it will, in these This Island is distant from the town 10 miles: and Notes, be considered as a part of that Township. is, besides, an

Island called Rom (or Rum) Island, which belongs to

it,

from Long Island shore about 3. It is assessed for about one sixth of the value of the Township. The shore on the North side of East Hampton is rocky and indented with bays, coves, and creeks,