With
the additions as described on the previous pages, the public domain
now stretched from the west boundary of Pennsylvania to the Pacific
Ocean and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. And it included
Florida and Alaska.
Altogether,
the public domain embraced more than one billion, 800 million acres
(1,800,000,000 acres).
..
With
the additions as described on the previous pages, the public domain
now stretched from the west boundary of Pennsylvania to the Pacific
Ocean and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. And it included
Florida and Alaska.