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EXPLANATION OP ABBREVIATIONS.
M—Miles. N—North. 8—South. E—East. W—West. By or Rys—Railway
or Railways.
♦ Not a Post Office, and no report received as to what Post Office mail should
be addressed to reach this place.
All counties, towns, cities, villages, etc., are indexed in the following manner
" Brazil, Clay, G-16, (Rys 11, 69), 3530."
u Black Hawk Mills, Posey, 7 m S E Mount Vernon, B-26, mail Weft Frank
lin, 100.'1
Brazil being in black type indicates that it Is the county seat of Clay county:
G-16 shows where it can be fuund on the map (see example below): that it is a
station upon each of the railways 11 and 69 (see list of railways, which are con-
secutively numbered and alphabetically arranged); 3539 it) the population of
Brazil, according to the census of 1880.
Black Hawk Mills is in Posey connty, seven miles southeant of Mount Vernon,
and that mail for this place should be sent to West Franklin Post Office; popula-
tion 100, Census of 1880.
The letters and figures following names (like G-16 above) refer to that poiut on
the map at which lines drawn from marginal figures top and bottom, and letters
upon either side of map, would cross each other at right angles.
For example, to find "New York City, D 5;" let the diagram below represent
the map. New York is seen near the crossing of lines D—D and 5—6.
1 2 3 4 5 6
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13 8 4
5 C
Entered according to Actaf Congress, in the year 1881, bj
RAND, McNALLY & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
