mentioned in the Answer to the preceding Question No. 2, the extent from the 42 d Degree to the North Line of Massachusetts Bay (a distance of 49 miles) is about 456 miles, and from thence to the 45 th Degree, it extends East & West on a Medium about 500 miles, and on the like supposition the

number of square miles contained within this Province exclusive of the Lakes is 82,112 or 52,551,680 acres, which is one fourth less than the number contained in the Province of Quebec.

Nassau or Long Island which contains Kings, Queens and Suffolk Counties. PariB cultivated

-- Staten Island which

forms Richmond County and the Counties of New York, Westchester, Dutchess, Orange

and Ulster, are all well inhabited, and not many large Tracts of improveable land are left uncultivated.

--The County of Albany

tho' the Inhabitants are numerous, and the

Lands in general under

Cultivation in the South, contains extensive and valuable Tracts unimproved in the North Part. 1

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Tryon County tho' thinly settled, as its extent is great, has many The cultivated parts of Charlotte County are inconsiderable, compared with what remains to be settled and the same may be remarked with respect to the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester. 3 In the Appendix is a list of the Inhabitants White and Black in the respective Counties, according to the returns of their numbers m 1771, since which they are greatly augmented, but it is to be observed that the new counties of Charlotte and Tryon were then part of Albany. 4 Inhabitants. 2