MDDM Ch. 70 Eleven Days

[Dave Monroe]

   "For eleven Days, from the ninth thro' the
nineteenth of October, they linger beside Dunkard
Creek, the Indians keeping their distance, looking to
their Weapons, as to their Routes of withdrawal,
whilst the White Folk dispute.  Some of the Hands are
back east of here, cutting the Visto to Breadth ...."
(M&D, Ch. 70, p. 679)

"Routes of withdrawal" = lines of flight?

"Unlike the tree, the rhizome is not the object of
reproduction, neither external reproduction as
image-tree nor internal reproduction as
tree-structure. The rhizome is an antigenealogy. It is
a short-term memory, or antimemory. The rhizome
operates by variation, expansion, conquest, capture,
offshoots. Unlike the graphic arts, drawing, or
photography, unlike tracings, the rhizome pertains to
a map that must be produced, constructed, a map that
is always detachable, connectable, reversible,
modifiable, and has multiple entryways and exits and
its own lines of flight. It is tracings that must be
put on the map, not the opposite. In contrast to
centered (even polycentric) systems with hierarchical
modes of communication and preestablished paths, the
rhizome is an acentered, nonhierarchical,
nonsignifying system with a General and without an
organizing memory or central automation, defined
solely by a circulation of states." (p. 21)

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari.  A Thousand
   Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.  Trans.
   Brian Massumi.  Mpls: U of Minn P, 1987.

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/deleuze_thousand.html

Mattesich, Stefan.  Lines of Flight: Discursive
   Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of
   Thomas Pynchon.  Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002.

http://www.dukeupress.edu/

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0205&msg=66914&sort=date


"... Dixon now for pushing on, razzle-dazzling their
way among the Indians at least as far as Ohio. 
'Cheer's the Ticket.  Let them have more than their
daily Ration of Spirits.  They'll be Sports.'
   "'Wait,-- you think you'll be getting through on
charm?  Indians all the way up into the Six Nations
and down to the Cherokee know about that Coat,-- many
have their Eye upon it, and you are but the minor
inconvenience from which 'twill have to be remov'd.' 
   "The Indians grow coy and sinister.  The Women
stare openly, steadily amus'd.  Mason and Dixon are
allow'd to cross the War-path, and three more Turnings
of Dunkard Creek, before they can climb to a Ridge-top
high enough to set up the Sectore.  At last the Dodmen
have reach'd their Western Terminus, at 233 Miles, 13
Chains, and 68 Links from the Post Mark'd West. 
'Damme, we're only a few miles shy.'" (M&D, Ch. 70, p.
679)

>From The Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,
ed. A. Hughlett Mason (Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 1969; line breaks retained) ...

October

9

Continued the Line to a High ridge.  At 231 miles 20
chains Crossed a War Path.
At 231 miles 71 chains Dunchard Creek.  This Creek
takes its name from a small town settled by the
Dunchards
near the Mouth of this Creek on the Monaungahela;
about 7 or 8
Miles North of where we crossed the said River.  The
Town was burnt, and most of its Inhabitants killed by
the Indians in 1755.
At 232 miles 43 chains crossed Dunchard's Creek a
second time.
At 232 miles 74 chains crossed Ditto a third time.
This day the Chief of the Indians which joined us on
the 16th of July informed us
that the above mentioned War Path was the extent
of his commission from the Chiefs of the Six Nations
that he should go with us, with the Line; and that he
would not
proceed one step farther Westward.

10

The Indians with us still persisting that they
will not go any farther Westward with the Line ...

[...]

11 Sun.

Set up the Sector in the Direction of our Line
at the distance of 233 Miles 13 Chains and 68 Links
from the Post marked West in Mr. Bryan's Field, and
made the following Observations.... (p. 187)

And from A. Hughlett Mason's "Introduction," Section
III, "Mason and Dixon's Survey," pp. 9-21 ...

   "October, 1767.   The work proceeded in continuing
the boundary survey westward....  The extension of the
line continued and crossed an Indian war path .... 
This was near a town which had been burned and most of
the inhabitants killed in an Indian massacre in 1755. 
On the ninth the chief of the Indians who were acting
as deputies declared that the war path just reached
'was the extent of his commission from the Chiefs of
the Six Nations' and that he would proceed no farther.
 All the Indian deputies now began to protest against
any additional extension of the line, but
nevertheless, Mason and Dixon continued for nearly 2
more miles ....  The sector was set up at a distance
of 233 miles 13 chains 68 links and latitude
observations were taken ...." (p. 20)

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