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routes, and thus they are already marked out upon the ground. It is 
possible that the necessity of running and marking out the county 
lines had become so pressing in 1828, and the expense of doing it was 
so plain, that it was thought worth while to consider a change to a 
plan in which the lines were already marked by nature as nearly as 
possible. Happily, no such change was ever made, for the counties re- 
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sulting from such a mode of division, each centering in a wilderness and 
with the county town somewhere on one margin where most of the 
county residents must cross the pathless forests to reach it, would be 
of the most inconvenient possible form, particularly in the days prior 
to railroads. This plan, however, reappeared once more before it 
vanished entirely, namely in the book and map of Thomas Baillie of 
1832, later to be referred to, where it is used with some minor altera- 
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