bound-marks

Updated: May 25, 2025

There you are never reminded that the wilderness which you are threading is, after all, some villager's familiar wood-lot, some widow's thirds, from which her ancestors have sledded fuel for generations, minutely described in some old deed which is recorded, of which the owner has got a plan too, and old bound-marks may be found every forty rods, if you will search.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858