The grant of Maryland to the Lord Baltimore, and the subsequent determinations of the British court as to the extent of that grant. The ancient charters from the crown of England. This state is therefore one third larger than the islands of Great-Britain and Ireland, which are reckoned at 88,357 square miles. These boundaries include an area somewhat triangular, of 121,525 square miles, whereof 79,650 lie westward of the Alleghaney mountains, and 57,034 westward of the meridian of the mouth of the Great Kanhaway,
equal to 223.3 miles, supposing a degree of a great circle to be 69 m. This being our comprehension of longitude, that of our latitude, taken between this and Mason and Dixon's line, is 3°. of longitude, reckoning 55 miles and 3144 feet to the degree. By admeasurements through nearly the whole of this last line, and supplying the unmeasured parts from good data, the Atlantic and Missisipi, are found in this latitude to be 758 miles distant, equal to 13°. 30′ North: and on the South by the line of latitude last mentioned. Mason and Dixon thence by that line, and a continuation of it westwardly to the completion of five degrees of longitude from the eastern boundary of Pennsylvania, in the same latitude, and thence by a meridian line to the Ohio: on the West by the Ohio and Missisipi, to latitude 36°. 42.4″ which divides Maryland from Pennsylvania, and which was marked by Messrs. 57′ North latitude from thence by a streight line to Cinquac, near the mouth of Patowmac thence by the Patowmac, which is common to Virginia and Maryland, to the first fountain of its northern branch thence by a meridian line, passing through that fountain till it intersects a line running East and West, in latitude 39°. Virginia is bounded on the East by the Atlantic: on the North by a line of latitude, crossing the Eastern Shore through Watkins's Point, being about 37°.
AN exact description of the limits and boundaries of the state of Virginia?
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