A Gazetteer of Illinois in Three Parts Containing a General View of the State

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A Gazetteer of Illinois in Three Parts Containing a General View of the State
Peck John Mason
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The parts of townships, sections, quarters, etc. Made at the lines of either townships or meridians are>called excesses or deficiencies.
Sections, or miles square are numbered, beginning ID the northeast corner of the township, progressively west to the range line, and then progressively east to the range line, alternately, terminating at the southeast corner of the township, from, one to thirty-six, as in the following diagram: A GAZETTEER 6 5 4 3 2 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 18 17 16* 15 14 13 19 20 21
... 22 23 24 30 29 28 27 26 25 32 33 34 35 36 I have been thus particular in this account of the surveys of public lands, to exhibit the simplicity of a system, that to strangers, unacquainted with the method of numbering the sections, and the various subdivisions, appears perplexing and confused.
A large tract of country in the north, and north east- ern portion of this state is yet unsurveyed. This does not prevent the hardy pioneers of the west from taking possession, where the Indian title is extinct, as it is Appropriated for schools in the township.


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