[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The equivalent land they estimated at 61,440 acres, which has to be taken from Connecticut on the east side of the parallel line."^; The angle above mentioned (sometimes called Cortlandi's Point) was situated near the southwest shore of Lake Wacabuck (Long Pond.) Here the commissioners, who surveyed the manor of Cortlandt in 1734, erected a monument, which they "deemed and esteemed twenty miles distant from Cortlandt's Point, at the mouth of the Highlands." " The complete settlement of the boundary line (says the his-torian Smith) was not made till the 14th of May, 1731, when indentures, certifying the execution of the agreement in 1725, were mutually signed by the commissioners and surveyors of both colonies. "~ •• '. ' / ". ^ Upon the establishment of this partition, a tract of land lying on the Connecticut side, consisting of above sixty thousand acres, from its figure called the Oblong, was ceded to New York, as an equivalent for lands near the Sound, surrendered to Coimecti-