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provided with their own means of subsistence, while absent from 
the settlements. 
‘The above sketch must be considered only as an approach to 
correctness of topography, and is based in part upon the survey 
lines, as found on the County map; but the geographical position 
is approximated to Burr’s Map of the State of New York, by 
means of bearings from known objects on the borders of Lake 
Champlain, 
