...been explored, and to all appearances, together with the information received concerning the balance, is so bad there would not be more than one acre out...thousand that would in any case admit of cultivation." Mr. Dikeman became a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons of New York city, in...

...been explored, and to all appearances, together with the information received concerning the balance, is so bad there would not be more than one acre out...thousand that would in any case admit of cultivation." Mr. Dikeman became a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons of New York city, in...

...been explored, and to all appearances, together with the information received concerning the balance, is so bad there would not be more than one acre out...thousand that would in any case admit of cultivation." Mr. Dikeman became a member of Phanix Lodge, No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons of New York city, in 1828,...

...explored, and to all appearances, together with the information received concerning the balance, is so bacf there would not be : more than one acre out of a hundred,...thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation. The consequence of such a report being made was that the act locating the 2,000,009! acres of military...

...the balance, is so bad there would not be more than one acre out of a hundred, if there would be oue out of a thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation. The consequence of such a report being made was that the act locating the 2,000.00ft acres of military...

...soil, —everywhere the same,—taking the country as a whole, not one acre out of a hundred, if indeed one out of a thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation!" Such was the description given of our pleasant peninsula by the Surveyor General of Ohio Nov. 13, 1815....

...concerning the balance, it is so bad that there would not be more than one acre out of a hundred, if /here would be one out of a thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation." Probably the above was an honest expression of opinion on the part of the surveyor-general, who, of...

..." Taking the country altogether, so far as has been explored, and to all appearances, together with information received concerning the balance, it is...thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation.";]: This report, as can be seen, applied to the eastern part of the State, but at the same time the character...

...covered with a sward of grass with water and mud " underneath ; the country altogether so bad that there would "not be more than one acre out of a hundred,...thousand, that would in any case admit of "cultivation." Official stupidity had its effect on Congress, and in 1816 (April 29) that body cancelled the survey...

...small, scrubby oaks. In many places that part which may be called dry land is composed of little, short sand-hills, forming a kind of deep basins, the bottoms...the country. But we must make allowance, too, for the universal ignorance existing at that time of the methods of developing the Western country which...