4 G 5 . REPORT OF PROGRESS. I. C. WHITE. * 



a distance (by the stream) of about 40 miles ; — thence due 

 west 7 miles, 92 poles to Lehigh creek ; — thence up Lehigh 

 creek "to the head forks thereof" 6 miles. 



Its west boundary along Lackawanna (lately Luzerne) 

 county and Susquehanna county runs due north 48 miles 

 274 poles to the New York State line. (Susquehanna county 

 borders it for 24f miles.) Its north boundary along the 

 New York State line back to the Delaware river is 6f miles. 



Its area as compiled from official surveys of all the tracts 

 is according to Mr. Jacob S. Davis 462,615 acres, or 722.8 

 square miles.* 



Its 20 townships are arranged in the following manner : 



Scott. 



Buckingham. 

 Preston. 



Manchester. 

 Mt. Pleasant. Lebanon. Damascus. 

 Clinton. Dyeberry. Oregon. 

 Canaan. Texas. Berlin. 

 S. Canaan. Cherry Ridge. 



Palmyra. 

 Salem. Paupack. 



Sterling. 



Its population according to the census reports has been : 



In I860, 32,239 



In 1870, 33,188 



In 1880, 33,512 



Its principal towns are : . 



Honesdale, the county seat, situated in Texas township, 

 on Lacka waxen creek, at the mouth of the Dyeberry. — Its 

 population in 1870 was 2,654, and in 1880, 7,000; it is the 

 western terminus of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and 

 is best known as a shipping point for anthracite coal, which 

 is conveyed across the Moosic mountains from Carbon dale 

 on the Carbondale & Honesdale Gravity R.R. The coal is 

 re-shipped on the D. & H. Canal, and the branch of the N. 

 Y. L. E. & W. R.R. (Erie) which decends the Lacka waxen 

 creek from Honesdale to the Delaware river connecting the 

 town directly with New York and the eastern cities. 



Level of water in D. & H. Canal 985' A. T. Honesdale 



* Walling & Graj r 's atlas says 720 square miles ; 460,800 acres. 



