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James Dinsmore & John M. Perry
to the Board of Visitors
The Subscribers haveing leveled from the doric pavillion to the Springs on the
mountain--find the two first to be 6. feet above the water table--at the distance of 1,100
yards--one hundred yards further is another Spring 26. feet above the water table of
pavillion--and Still further--Say abut 60 yards there is another 75 feet above the sd. level--all
of these are bold good Springs--the furtherest Spring--1,260. yards from the pavillion--as
near as we Could tell by Steping it of[f]
Jas. Dinsmore
John M. Perry
DS, in Perry's writing, ViU:TJ, 1p [1658] with address "The Visitors of the University
present" and TJ docket "Dinsmore & Perry levelling."
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