The volume is approximately four inches wide by ten inches tall, and its binding has been repaired using black electrical tape. It bears no page numbers, no date, no title, nor an inscription with the name of its owner. Each page has a heading with the township number and range description with subheadings for the township sections being described. There are no diagrams or narrative notes, only five columns of information identified on the first line of each page: corners, witness trees, [tree] diameter, course, and links [chain]. Only two pages mention a location: the page headed “Part of T.9.N.R.11.West (in Jersey County)” and the last line of the following page for the same area, “not noted being in Greene County Ills.” Therefore, it is deduced that the surveyor worked in Jersey County, Illinois.