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Murfreesboro October 26^th 1825

To his Excellency the Governor of Tennessee

Sir,

In obedience to the
instructions given us by you for taking the latitude
of Walker's line between this State and Kentucy, &
also of that recently run by Colonel Steel of Ken=
tucky in this State: We now have the honour to re=
port that, on the nineteenth of this month, we
commenced the business assigned us, and found
the latitude of the line run by Colonel Steel at
a point near Springfield to be 36 degrees 28 minutes
and 44 seconds. We, then proceeded to Walker's line
and found the latitude of the same at the point
where it is crossed by the road leading from
Springfield in this State to Russelville in Kentucky
to be 36 degrees 37 minutes 9 seconds. From this ^it ap=
pears that the line run by Colonel Steel is south
of latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes one statute mile