The Governour some time the fore part of last winter Requested the General Assembly to make a Grant to Defray the charge of exploring Connecticut River to its Source and making a plann of it to send to England (as I am informed) to shew that the River Comes more from the East than has hitherto been Immagined, and so much from the East as not to Touch the 45th degree of Northern Latitude ; that the Assembly declining to make the Grant, the Governor at his own, and the charge of some others who subscribed sent Mr Benjz Whiting and Mr Grant on the business with a Letter from his Excellency Recommending it to all persons of Connecticut River (Friends to the Government of New Hampshire) to contribute towards enabling

'the Parties to proceed and Effect the business. Representing that it was likely the Effect of the Survey would be the extension of the Jurisdiction of New Hampshire to those Lands &e, that in consequence of this Letter considerable Contributions

from Divers persons near the River bank was obtained by Whiting and he proceeded on the business ;

The manner of his proceeding and the Probability of a Fraud in Whitings Chart of the River is in Few words expressed in the enclosed deposition--the deposition perhaps might have been more particular had there been Time--but the Secrets of this Supposed Fraudilent Survey was unknown to me untill this morning, when Mr John Grout came here with M:' How the deponent and gave me the Information and as I was obliged to | begg the Favour of a Gentleman on a Journey thro' Springfield to Tarry untill the deposition was Made and these Lines wrote will account for the Reason why neither the one or the other is more