Tliese lands however I believe will be no ways fit for the design in hand, being very good Lands, which here bears no Pines and lyes very remote I shall however be able to carry it on elsewhere, for there is no want of Pines but the pine land being good for nothing tlie difficulty will ly in finding such a situation as W'ill aftbrd good land for their Settlements near the Pine lands ; I am in terms with some who have lands on the Hudson's River fitt for that purpose which I intend to view next week in company with D"" Bridges who is now with me and gives me good Incouragement.

SAME TO THE SAME.

[Lond. Doc. XVIII.]

Oct. 3. 1710.

I have been obliged to purchase a Tract of Land on Hudson's River from M"" Leviston consisting of 6000 acres as your Lordships will observe from this imperfect draught of it, for 400ii of this Country money that is 266£ English for the planting of the greatest division of the Palatines. It has these advantages besides the goodness of the Soile, that it is adjacent to the Pine which by the conveyance we are Intituled to, and a Place where Ships of 50 foot water may go without difficulty. Over against it, but a little further, I have found a small Tract of about a mile in length along the River which lias by some chance not been granted, tlio' pretended to have been purchased of the Indians by some, where I have planted the remainder, they are not all as yet transported, but I am making all possible dispatch that I may prevent the winter, this Tract also lyes near to the Pine. NP Bridges who attended that w^ork and is on tlie spott, chose the first and approved of the last place.