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The survey line
The 1817 line runs due east from the southern extreme of Lake Michigan — through that point, at about 41.616° north — and it passes some 5.8 miles south of the federal place point of New Carlisle (41.700°), cutting the southern part of Olive civil township and Township 37 North, well south of the section-34 townsite. Two different lines are kept apart here because the record keeps them apart: the 1817 line runs through the lake's southern extreme; the line ten miles north of that extreme is Indiana's northern boundary under the Enabling Act of 1816, and it is the second line, not the first, that keys the 1826 cession below. The 1817 line's work in this title course is boundary work only: it is the southern boundary of the 1821 cession and, expressly named in the 1828 text, the northern boundary of that treaty's second cession. The townsite stands north of it, in the strip between the 1817 line and the state line — and that strip had its own instrument.