I am EXAMPLE1.TXT This is the land description from a deed in Wayne county, Kentucky. It is in two tracts. FIRST TRACT Beginning on a stake at a cliff and running S. 78 W. 22 poles to a hickory; in the gap of the cliff; thence S. 20 E. 18 poles to a stake in the M. and D. line; thence N. 54 E. 8 poles to their corner, a cedar and elm; thence S. 61 E. 25 poles to a post oak; S. 30 E. still their line 40 poles to a gum; S. 50 E. still their line 4 poles to a hickory; still their line 48 poles S. 50 E. to a double black oak; still their line N. 60 E. 8 poles to a poplar, B's corner; thence running with B.'s line N. 10 E. to a chestnut; thence N. 65 W. 15 poles to a stone and small hickory; S. 49« W. 9 poles to a stake; thence S. 72« W. 9 poles to a stake; thence S. 59« W. 6 poles to a small hickory; thence N. 52¬ W. 3 poles to a chestnut; thence S. 85 W. 3 2/3 poles to a sassafras; thence N. 53 W. 5 2/3 poles to a maple; thence N. 61 W. 6 poles to a sugartree; thence N. 59 W. 6«poles to a beech; thence N. 51 W. 6 poles to an ash; thence N. 47 W. 10« poles to a double white oak; thence N. 42 W. 7 poles to an ash; thence N. 46 W. 4« poles to a white oak; thence N. 52 W. 5 1/3 poles to an elm; thence N. 51 W. 7 poles to an ash; thence N. 69 W. 6« poles to a double chestnut oak; thence to the beginning. SECOND TRACT Beginning on the East corner of second party's garden; thence with V.R.'s line to a black oak and dogwood; thence N. 35 E. 22 poles to hickory & dogwood L.W.M.'s line; thence N. 70 W. about 70 yards to a small ash and stone on W.M.'s line; thence with W.M.'s line S. 29 W. 1 pole to a sugartree; thence S. 19 W. 13« poles to a four-forked sugartree; thence S. 16 W. 8¬ poles to a sugartree; thence S. 22 W. 7 1/3 poles to a hickory; thence S20 W. 8 3/4 poles to an ash; thence S. 42 W. 5 1/3 poles to a sugartree; thence S12« W. 9« poles to a hickory; thence S. 31 W. 10 poles to a young beech tree; thence S. 19 W. 6 1/3 poles to a soft maple; thence S. 21 W. 7« poles to an oak; thence S. 17 W. 7« poles to a young beech tree; thence S. 21 W. 8¬ poles to a double hickory near the barnyard fence corner; thence S. 25« W. 4 3/4 poles to a beech tree along side of barnyard fence; thence S. 30 W. 5 1/3 poles to a soft maple; thence S. 31 W. 8¬ poles to a hickory; thence S. 34« E. to a stone and a hickory in the fence corner; thence back to the beginning. The land descriptions were enterred into CAVEMAP and are files named EXAMPLE1.CAV & EXAMPLE2.CAV in a data format. You can read them just like you are reading this file. In addition, CAVEMAP can read this format and do some useful tricks with the data. Read file EXAMPLE2.TXT for more information. Read (or better yet, print so that you can doodle with a pencil), CAVEMAP1.TXT for instructions on the use of CAVEMAP1.BAS