At ye water side next Merrimack river over against Newbury landing place from Mr Goodings bound tree to a white oak stump about nine or ten rods and so runeing up ye hill on ye lower side to a walnut tree marked with A over a small white oak marked with an A about four rods wide ranging up ye hill between two small black oaks marked about four rods apart and so upward to a great rock on ye lower side in baileys hill two rods wide and so e town ward two rod wide through ye land of ye sd Bayley being one hundred and ten rods and one half in length so through ye land of john weeds between two great rocks about fifty three rods and half in length two rod wide and so to ye land of Goodman Haddens next ye street as witness our hands the 17th 1670. This is the plotting of a “highway” back in 1670 which is similar to the present day 95, running by then same landmarks as the new road. This part of the book stood out to me because it seemed very unlikely that anyone would be able to follow these directions. I do understand that that is how people used to talk but the fact that they were using trees and rocks as points to follow just seemed interesting to me. Whenever my father is starting up a new development he and I always go over the road plan just because I’ve always been interested in how it affects the overall look of the subdivision. Legally he and the other developers have to create a written statement similar to this on where it will run and where all of the lots will be. Instead of landmarks, they use specific GPS coordinates because it is easier for them to write those down simply because they script will in fact never be read and they already have that information in front of them. Instead of looking at the script, there large blueprints of the desired path all with specific measurements put together by the zoners.