Overview:

1. Mapping the Oceans (seeing like a state)
2. The signification of the frontier

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3714N 6937W                                                                           NW     51 NW     57 NW   \
51                                          201A.STEWART       NEW BEDFORD             WHALING V\
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In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports." This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West.

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