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This Land Is Your Land.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 10-FEB-03

Author: Rozzo, Mark

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In 1785, Thomas Hutchins, the first Geographer of the United States, began the improbable task of literally measuring the expanding new nation, yard by yard. Inching west from the Pennsylvania-Ohio border, and equipped with Gunter's chain--a handy surveying device stretching exactly twenty-two yards long--Hutchins' crew chopped the tangled frontier...

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