A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, Comprehending the River Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. the Climate, Soil and Produce, Whether Animal Vegetable, or Mineral: The Mountai
A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, Comprehending the River Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. the Climate, Soil and Produce, Whether Animal Vegetable, or Mineral: The Mountai
Excerpt from A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina States, now applied to an area many times larger than the whole federal territory in 1789, and under the administration of a special office of the Depart ment of the Interior. The system of land platting now used by the Commissioner of the General Land Office is supposed to have been the invention of Thomas Hutchins. A little more than three years before his death, his survey of public lands in Ohio was commenced. At the time ...
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Excerpt from A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina States, now applied to an area many times larger than the whole federal territory in 1789, and under the administration of a special office of the Depart ment of the Interior. The system of land platting now used by the Commissioner of the General Land Office is supposed to have been the invention of Thomas Hutchins. A little more than three years before his death, his survey of public lands in Ohio was commenced. At the time of his death, he had surveyed four of the seven ranges, and had put in practice the rectangular system of dividing lands in squares of one mile with meridian lines, marking on the corner-posts the number of the section, town, and range. The only part of this system that has been changed in the surveys of today is the method of numbering the sections. So simple and effective has this system proved that no one other circumstance has so facilitated the settlement of the West. It has enabled large tracts to be platted with accuracy and despatch, opened them to systematic settlement on a sound basis, and reduced to a minimum vexatious suits over boundary lines. While the question of the authorship of this system may never be settled absolutely, it is certain that to no one belongs a greater meed of praise than to the man who first applied the system in the seven ranges from which has Spread out the great network of western surveys. Were this Hutchins's only achievement it would justify an examination the events of his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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