[PDF.30re] Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped By the Greatest Land Sale in History

Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped By the Greatest Land Sale in History

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 | #367104 in Books |  2003-09-30 |  2003-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.40 x.65 x5.40l,.65 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Take on Surveying The West|By john s.|This is an interesting book covering the way in which the US switched from the traditional plat descriptions of Europe, 'metes and bounds' which used physical descriptors, to the 'township' concept which was based on orthogonal N-S and E-W lines and a 6-mile fundamental square. There is a long section on the questions of units o| |"[Linklater] has the talent not just to let us know how things work, but to make us want to know...A magical mystery tour that leaves the reader both mildly footsore and exhilarated by unexpected connections." —The New York Times|"What's grea

In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life.

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