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12. The situation of Long Island is this : it is 

 about 130 miles long, and, on an average about 

 8 miles broad. It extends in length from the Buy 

 of the City of New-York to within a short distance 

 of the State of Rhode Island. One side of it is 

 against the sea, the other side looks across an arm 

 of the sea into a part of the State of New-York 

 (to which Long Island belongs) and into a part of 

 the State of Connecticut. At the end nearest the 

 city of New-York it is separated from the site of 

 that city by a channel so narrow as to be crossed 

 by a Steam-Boat in a few minutes ; and this boat, 

 with another near it, impelled by a team of horses, 

 which work in the boat, form the mode of con- 

 veyance from the Island to the city, for horses, 

 wagons, and every thing else. 



13. The Island is divided into three counties. 

 King's county, Queen's county, and the county of 

 Suffolk. King's county takes off the end next 

 New-York city for about 13 miles up the Island ; 

 Queen's county cuts off another slice about thirty 

 miles further up ; and all the rest is the county of 

 Sufiolk. These counties are divided into town- 

 ships. And, the municipal government of Justices 

 of the Peace, Sheriffs, Constables, &c. is in nearly 

 the English way, with such differences as I shall no- 

 tice in the Second Part of this work. 



14. There is a ridge of hills which runs from one 

 end of the Island to the other. The two sides are 

 j3ats, or, rather, very easy and imperceptible 

 irlopes towards the sea. There are no rivers, or 

 rivulets, except here and there a little run into a 

 bottom which lets in the sea water for a mile or two 

 us it were to meet the springs. Dryness is, there- 

 fore, a great characteristic of this Island. At the 

 place where I live, which is in Queen's county, 

 and very nearly the middle of the Island, cross- 

 wise, we have no water, except in a well seventy 

 feet deep, and from the clouds ; yet, we never ex- 



