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Gunter's chain [belonged to John Johnson (1771-1841), Surveyor General of Vermont] Steel and brass Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Washington, D.C. (9B)

Found at the Library of Congress' site for the Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America exhibition.[1]

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