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THE GEOLOGY OP MINNESOTA. 



[Area of the state. 



The Area of the State, by counties, has been given by Henry Gannett, 

 geographer of the tenth United States census, in round numbers, and its 

 aggregate area at 83,365 square miles, of which 4.160 square miles are con- 

 sidered water surface and 79,205 land surface. This, however, does not 

 include any portion of the lake of the Woods, nor Rainy lake, and the areas 

 of the northern unorganized counties are estimated in "thousands" of square 

 miles, viz : Beltrami, 5,000 ; Cass, 4,000 ; Itasca, 5,000 ; Lake, 3,000 ; Polk, 

 4,000; St. Louis, 6,000, and Cook, 460. Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medi- 

 cine and Lincoln counties are reduced for the proposed formation 01 

 Canby county, which, however, not having been approved by the vote of the 

 inhabitants, was not constituted and is not listed. Swift county is given at 

 580 instead of 757 square miles, and Renville at 900 instead of 981. 



For the purpose of getting a more exact statement of the area of the 

 state, the whole has been re-computed from the records of the state auditor's 

 office in St. Paul, with the results shown in the following table.* 



AREAS OF THE COUNTIES OF MINNESOTA IN SQUARE MILES AND ACRES. 



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and half of all boundary waters excepting lake Superior, no part of which is included. 



