Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — The Delaware Boundary. [ARTICLE]

The Delaware Boundary.

Tho northern boundary line of Delaware is circular bocauso the oharter given to Penn says that Pennsylvania was to bo “bounded on the east by thej J)olaware River from twelve miles distant north of Now Castle town until tho throo and fortieth degroe of north, latitude, ” and that the southern bounds arr was to bo “a circle drawn at twelve miles distant from tho town of Now Castlo, northward and westward, until tho fortieth degree of north latitude, and then by a straight line westward.” This makes a circular boundary for Northern Delaware unavoidable, and tho facts abovo sot forth explain a geographical curiosity that has puzzled many students.