Have those Latitudes and "Longitudes been settled by good Observations; or only by "common Computations, and fort whence are the ae computed 2

No. 2. " What are the reputed Boundaries and are any parts "thereof disputed: what parts & by whom ?"

- Tshall, that Answer may be made thereto, mention such particulars as occur to me, from my own knowledge; or the Credible Information of others, on the Subject Matter of their Lordp® Queries, & Class them in the same order observ'd in the Queries.

The Scituation of the Province of New York is to the East- Se rametbabpr kt ward of the Provinces of New Jersey & Pensylvania Province of New & of the Indian Countries lyirfg to the Northward

& Westward of Pensylvania ; To the Southward of

Canada and the Indian Countries claimed by the French, & To the Westward of the Colonies of Massathusetts Bay & Connecticut.

The nature of the Country is more uneven, hilly, stony, &

rocky, than that of the Provinces to the Southward pede res of it. In some parts it is mountainous. At about

toltssurface- 40 miles from the City of New York Northward, a Mountains. chain of Mountains' of about 10 miles in Breadth, commoly called the Highlands, cross Hudson's River running

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many miles from the Northeast Southwestward. About 90 miles Northward from New York another body of Mountains rise on the west side of Hudson's River, at about 10 miles from the River, & are commonly called the Kaats kill Mountains or Blew Hills. From these Mountains the most northerly Po conte Branches of Delaware River, some Branches of Susquehana River, and several of Hudson's River take their rise.