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 4 rods, 22 yards One cricket pitch 4 rods, 22 yards 80 per mile 4 rods, 22 yards 60 foot 6 4 rods, 22 yards Furlong by 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