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In Sams dominions situated, Containing, as 't was estimated By actual measurement and survey Of engineers (now dead with scurvy), Five million acres nine square perches, Besides the Intervale of Birches, Including mountains, hills, and hollows, And bounded and described as follows, To witt : Begin at Whiteface Schoolhouse, And running tow'rds McGaffey's tool-house, Thence where two highways fork and spangle, Jog off upon the sin'ster angle To Dave Rowe's cabin hospitable, Thence where the d 1 you are able, Keeping in close perambulation Within the metes of Yankee nation,— Remembering, when at last you Ve done it, To leave off at the bounds begun at : Hereby both meaning and intending (That litigation it may n't end in) The said grantee shall be invested With all Chocorua granite crested, Whereon grim Bruin growls in glory, From verdant base to summit hoary,— To have and hold the same forever, Provided he be longest liver, To him, his heirs, assigns, successors,— A chain of undisturbed possessors,— With each appurtenance and privilege Thereto belonging— in a civil age. And I do covenant with said Carter, While earth is land and two thirds water, And I am spared by rueful Nemesis To warrant and defend the premises, To him and his from parchment blunder, And scamps unborn me claiming under;