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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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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

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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