The Work of Charles Mason and Jeremiah

[jbor]

Thanks indeed for posting this Dave. It's surprising to note even with the
brief summary Danson provides here just how much of the technical detail
Pynchon has left out of the novel. A lesser writer might have been inclined
to cram it all in, but the descriptions of equipment and the actual
itinerary, distances, methods etc have been melded inconspicuously into the
narrative or let be. Even the few quotations from Mason's Field Book are
largely bereft of technical jargon.

I've added it to the bibliog. And, by the way, does anybody have publication
details on the 1857 Veech book.

best


on 1/8/02 1:18 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Danson, Edwin.  "The Work of Charles Mason and
> Jeremiah Dixon," FIG XXII International Congress,
> Washington, DC., USA, April 19-26, 2002.
> 
> http://www.ddl.org/figtree/pub/fig_2002/HS1/HS1_danson.pdf
> 
> Forgot to make that an active link yetserday, so ...
> and beware the download time, although it's well worth
> the wait.  Drawing the Line in a nutshell ...
>