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only be building squares, and the white ones be left open, in turf and trees. Every square of houses will be surrounded by four open squares and every house will front an
open square. The atmosphere of such a town will be like that of the country, insusceptible of the miasmata which produce yellow fever.” Jefferson to Volney. http://www.landprints.com/LpRectangularSurveySystem.htm