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measuring fortv feet on the brook westward, it 

 reached the Azalea, where he drove down 

 another stake, and drawing his line tight made 

 it fast to that also ; then measuring forty feet 

 to the north at right angles as near as possible, 

 he drove down the third stake and fastened 

 the line as before. Then before any further 

 progress was made, he squared this angle, which 

 he did in this way. First measuring eight feet 

 from the corner of the angle to the east, and 

 driving down a stake ; then measuring six feet 

 from the corner to the north and driving down 

 another ; then laying his ten feet pole across 

 from one of these stakes to the other, he found 

 it did not reach, w hich proved it was not square ; 

 he was therefore obliged to take up the stake 

 and line at the north and bring it in, until it 

 touched the ten feet pole, and then drove it 

 down again. 



Having one corner square, there was no dif- 



