In reading Robert E. Grim's, Maps of the Township and Range System, I found the ultimate decision of choosing a square or rectangular shape for controlling newly acquired lands to be quite wise yet uncreative. Squares can be tightly packed and would fit together nicely, or in the case of how they built street, can be slightly separated to created narrow alleyways or streets like we see today. However, I feel that this uniformity in mapping out the newly found lands takes away the artistic qualities that can be expressed. One good thing that came out of this six square-mile based towns was that a traveler could have an ease at mind knowing that they have rest stops approximately six miles in any direction.
In the reading, The American Sublime by David E. Nye, I got a really strong feeling on how powerful the beauty of nature was. Nye states that Jefferson "abandons his scientific tone", which causes me to think that Jefferson was so engulfed by the beauty of the Natural Bridge, that he ultimately forgot the reason for his coming. In our modern day society with technology evolving at a rapid pace, seeing the simplistic yet intriguing qualities of nature becomes quite a popular thing, which is why natural land formations become very popular tourist sites.
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