After much circling around, toward evening they came to a stony and desolate tract east of the great main valley.

The effect of their construction, as we all know, is to give them the whole of the St. John, with all its tributaries, and a tract of territory south of that river equal at least to 75 miles square.

Unhappily Tract 90 was met at Oxford, not with argument, but with panic and wrath.