Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.
The objection to the quality of the land does not seem to be sustained by the testimony. If there be a difference in quality between the part surveyed and the part left, it must be too slight to be the subject of consideration here.
It is certainly true that the surplus left to the United States should have been in one connected piece, if there were not sufficient reasons to justify a different course...
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