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<LEGEND>
     This schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from the
consolidated financial information  incorporated by reference to the 1996 Annual
Report which is filed  herwith as Exhibit 13 and is qualified in its entirety by
reference to such financial information.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>          THE FIRST OF LONG ISLAND CORPORATION             
       
                                   
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