Longitude

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Paul wrote:  Hey, how come They got Us reading a book about longitude 
when the M&D Line is a latitude????

Actually, the beginning of the line is southeast of the what we would 
call the latitude line because the colonial surveyors mistakenly put the 
starting point 20 miles or so south of where it should have been. 
Technically, this is partly longitude.
 
Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org