I have been asked how descriptions in "metes and bounds" differ from those in "courses and distances" : > "metes and bounds" are descriptions wherein the boundaries are set forth as the approx. distances and approximate directions to and from landmarks, man-made monuments and natural features. (see e.g., #1) ) > "courses and distances": Meaning compass directions - courses- and measured feet - distance - along those compass lines. These are descriptions set forth in straight lines determined by points on a compass, the lines being measured from one point to the next point or natural or man-made landmark along that line (occasionally an arc is included, the same described by the radius of the circle it partially forms). (e.g., 2). > Example #1: "...from an oak tree in the north bank of Town Creek, thence south along Wyche's west line approx. 54 poles to the corner of the old James Jones property, that corner marked by a pile of stones, thence, in a westerly direction along a line of marked trees to the center of Moccasin Branch, thence, etc., etc....." > Example #2: "...from an iron pin in the northwest corner of the Frances Wyche tract described in Deed Book 8, p. 65 ff, thence south, 10 degrees west, a distance of 1046 feet, to the Scotts Branch Road right of way, thence west, 10 degrees north along that road a distance of 647 feet to an iron pin at the southeast corner of the E. Gregory tract etc., etc....." > Hey, you surveyors, speak up, if we need to know more. Paul