Survey bearing marks and land descriptions, 1814.

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Survey bearing marks and land descriptions, 1814.

Lists in widely varying formats and degrees of comprehensiveness appear to have been abstracted from FEDERAL LAND SURVEYOR'S FIELD NOTES, RS 953.005. Entries are arranged by legal description and survey bearing marks and variously include such data as species and diameter of trees; species of undergrowth; and description of land (e.g., flat; prairie; timber; rolling; dry; rocky; wet; overflowed; bottom; brush).

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