Founding fathers Meander Virginia Western expansion Frontier settled with order
Zenith, sector William Clark was a surveyor
Sleep in trees Chain mounted surveyor Ranging transit Chain, by chain, by chain, by chain, by
Four rods, 22 yards One cricket pitch Four rods, 22 yards 80 per mile Four rods, 22 yards 60 foot six Four rods, 22 yards Gunter's chain
Zenith, sector All of them surveyors
"The want of accurate Maps of the Country which has hitherto been the Scene of War has been a great disadvantage to me I have in vain endeavored to procure them and have been obliged to make shift with such sketches as I could trace from my own Observations... " G. Washington