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two and eight-tenths miles to Avery’s Point; thence one 
and seven-tenths miles to Bluff Point; thence one and one- 
tenth miles to Groton Long Point; thence along the coast 
at high-water mark three-tenths of a mile to the southeast- 
ern extremity of Groton Long Point; thence five and four- 
tenths miles to Stonington or Windmill Point; and thence 
two and four-tenths miles to Pawcatuck Point, the eastern 
limit of the State. 
The straight bee line distance across the State from 
Byram Point to Pawtucket Point is ninety-six and one-half 
statute miles. 
The greatest width of Long Island Sound is from the 
“Highlands” in the town of Madison, due south to Jacobs 
Point, Long Island, twenty miles. From the Southwest 
Ledge light-house off New Haven harbor, due south to the 
Tong Island shore it is nineteen miles. From Byram 
Point in Greenwich, to Matinicock Point, Long Island, it 
is six miles. 
From Black Point, East Lyme, to Plum Island, it is six 
and three-quarters miles. 
The immense area bounded by the shore line on the north 
and by the New York boundary line on the south contains 
three hundred and thirty-five thousand acres subject to 
State jurisdiction. The areas within the bays, harbors, 
rivers, and inlets along the shore, bounded by the commis- 
sioners’ shore line just described, are subject to the juris- 
diction of the towns to which they respectively belong; 
and a large part of them are covered with oyster-beds, nat- 
ural or artificial, and but little remains there for designa- 
tion which can be of any value for oyster cultivation. 
Of the 335,000 acres under State jurisdiction, about 
15,000 acres are taken up by rocky reefs and islands. The 
deepest water in this area is about four miles south of 
Chimons Island, off the town of Norwalk, and three-fourths 
of a mile north of the State line; it is 195 feet deep; but 
one mile further south itis only 20 feet deep. The deepest 
water in the whole Sound is under New York jurisdiction; 
it is in the Race, near the east side of the Sound, north of 
Great Gull Island, and is 312 feet deep. 
