Manitoba and North west Territories . forms the International Boundary linebetwen the territories of Canada and those of the United States (seeDiagram p.* 39), and they lie in ranges which are numbered inregular succession westward of certain standard north-and-south linesfirst established, under the name of principal meridians, which aredistinctly set down on all Government maps.* There are also certainranges lying (and numbered) east of the First Principal Meridian, andlikewise some townships lying (and numbered) south of the 49th par-allel ; but these latter are situate east of the Lake of
Manitoba and North west Territories . forms the International Boundary linebetwen the territories of Canada and those of the United States (seeDiagram p.* 39), and they lie in ranges which are numbered inregular succession westward of certain standard north-and-south linesfirst established, under the name of principal meridians, which aredistinctly set down on all Government maps.* There are also certainranges lying (and numbered) east of the First Principal Meridian, andlikewise some townships lying (and numbered) south of the 49th par-allel ; but these latter are situate east of the Lake of the Woods. * The First Principal Meridian runs northward from a point on the InternationalBoundary about eleven miles west of the town of Emerson. The Second PrincipalMeridian is established upon the 102nd meridian of west longitude, passing aboutthirty miles west of Fort Ellice. The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Principal Meridiansare identical with the 106th, 110th, and 114th meridians of longitude lespectively. THE SYSTEM OF SURVEY. 39. 40 NORTH-WESTERN CANADA. SECTIONS. Each township is subdivided into thirty-six sections of 640 acres,or one square mile, more or less (the exact area being, like that of thetownship itself, subject to convergence or divergence of meridians), to-gether with certain road allowances, having a width of one chain, oneach section line running north and south, and on every alternate sec-tion line running east and west. The sections are laid out of the precise width of eighty chains (oreighty-one chains, including the contiguous road allowance) on certainlines running east and west, called base lines ; and the meridiansbounding sections are drawn thence, northward and southward, to thedepth of two townships, to certain correction lines. (See Diagrampage 39.) / All sections south of a base line will accordingly have their northernand southern boundary lines rather more than eighty chains, while thenorthern and southern boundaries of sections in the townshi
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