M&D's line

[Peter Petto]

At 06:48 PM 5/17/97 traveler at afn.org wrote:

>I was thinking about how the Line is very straight, but the book is not.

As I understand it, the line that Mason & Dixon drew was not entirely
straight, although popular conception may be otherwise.

Or maybe not, I think many perceive the line as extending beyond what they
surveyed, defining the free-slave delineation, and so ran along rivers.



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