Subject: Re: nysw and pane report
Date: Dec 09, 2001 @ 02:59
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> The western boundary of NY State is indeed fixed at the meridian orthe 1781 cession of the erie triangle by ny to the usa is what set the ny west boundary that way
> longitude line that runs through the western end of current Lake Ontario
> (near Hamilton, Ontario). I have not read why that was chosen. Look at a
> map, go straight south from Hamilton, across land in Ontario and then
> across Lake Erie, and it lines up with the western boundary of NY.