in Sandy Hook ; and the Navesink River joined by the Shrews- 

 bury River enters Sandy Hook Bay by flowing past the projecting 

 bluff. However, on consulting the map* of 1737 and the one 

 drawn from the surveys made in 1769 (by order of the commis- 



FlG. I. Map of the Navesink Highlands, New Jersey 



sioners appointed to settle the partition line between the provinces 

 of New York and New Jersey) by Bernard Ratzer, lieutenant in the 

 Sixtieth regiment and in 1777 of the northern parts by Gerard 



* See the map of 1737 in article by G. R. Putnam entitled Hidden Perils of the 

 Deep. National Geographic Magazine, XX, p. 825, Sept., 1909. The later map 

 was engraved and published by Wm. Faden, Charing Cross, December I, 1777, and 

 a facsimile published by the N. J. Geol. Survey in 1877. 



