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township, except of course that there are only 16 lots in this case. 

 Hereafter the term " lot " applies to a forty-acre tract. 



Arriving at the tract to be examined, I usually first go entirely 

 around the area so as to discover if there are any high ridges, and 

 if so to determine their course ; also to see whether or not tne tract 

 is all timbered, and to locate any vacant areas on its outer edges. 

 While making this circuit we mark points at each 125 paces on the 

 boundary. If the land is uniformly level, it is immaterial at which 

 point on the boundary line the work is commenced. If the tract 

 is very rolling, the strips taken must be run so as to cross the ridges 

 at as nearly right angles as is possible. 



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Suppose we are at the southeast corner of the section and that we 

 have an entire section of fairly level land to examine. My pacer 

 and compassman (I have but one assistant) steps off 125 paces, 

 say in a westerly direction, along the south line of lot 16, starting 

 from the southeast corner of the section. This brings us to a 

 point 20 rods west of this corner and a line drawn directly north 

 from this point should be parallel with the east line of the lot, also 

 parallel with the center line, if one were in existence, and 20 rods 

 distant from each of them. We proceed north from this point. At 

 50 paces the assistant halts, gets his tally-book and hard pencil into 

 action, and jots down each tree as I call them off to him. He 

 heads the vertical columns with the varieties of timber common to 

 the tract arid tallies each kind under the proper heading. 



