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veying party was obliged to adjourn to the 5th of April following. 

 Commencing again in the Spring, on the 18th of April they had 

 progressed as far as the Wid«nv Parnel's [Pennell's] in Edg- 

 mont, having crossed Upper Darby, Springfield, and Upper 

 Providence, in their route. Several lines had been run before, 

 which Mr. Peters, in a letter to the Governor, says they had 

 crossed several times, "but not after leaving Sam'. Levis's." 

 They are now "south of the line run by John Taylor,^ and more 

 south of the line run by the Jersey Commissioners/' Thus far 

 the work has gone on harmoniously. Two days later the party 

 had arrived at James Gibbons', in Thornbury. The Maryland 

 Commissioners became suspicious, because of the line running so 

 far south; but after a careful comparison of Theodolites they 

 became reconciled. On the 23d of April, both of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Commissioners wrote to the Governor from an open field 

 in West Bradford, which appears to be the point " where the 

 line is to be set off" South in order to measure the fifteen miles 

 and a quarter." It was about thirty-one miles from the place of 

 beginning. But they were now involved in a dispute. Col. Gale, 

 on the authority of the Governor and Council of Maryland, 

 claimed that the measure of the fifteen and a quarter miles 

 should be made superficially without any allowance for the alti- 

 tude of the hills, while the Pennsylvania Commissioners very 

 properly claimed this allowance. Mr. Eastburn had accompanied 

 the Jersey Commissioners last December, and had ascertained from 

 actual calculation that the diff"erence between the two plans of 

 measurement did not exceed twenty-five perches. The object of 

 the Commissioners, in now writing to the Governor, was to obtain 

 his directions, " whether they must join with the Maryland Com- 

 missioners superficially, that is to say, without allowing for the 

 Altitudes of the Hills, and so make them, [the Marylanders,] an 

 absolute present of 25 perches, or proceed ex parte, k how far 

 over Susquehannah, or return to Philadelphia & do no more at 

 present." 



On the 25th of April, the Commissioners again wrote to his 

 Honor, the Governor, dating their letter at Wm. Webb's. They 

 have now become extremely jealous of the Maryland Commis- 

 sioners, taking Col. Gale, one of them, "to be under instructions, 

 which they had for some time apprehended, to be inconsistent 

 with a disposition to run a fair Line with them," and accusing him 

 of seeking some pretext for breaking with them, in order to run 

 an ex parte line. After much argument, the Maryland Commis- 

 sioners agreed to allow the addition of twenty-five perches to the 



1 In the oflSce of the Surveyor-General at Harrisburg there is a map of the S. E. 

 part of Pennsylvania, in which this line is laid down, though it appears to start from 

 the northernmost part of the city of Philadelphia. 



