MDDM Ch. 71 Maskelyne's Introduction

[Dave Monroe]

"The Delaware country their Refuge,-- no steep
grades,-- 'as level for 82 Miles,' they wrote to the
Royal Society, 'as if it had been formed by Art,' a
phrase later to be found in Maskelyne's introduction
to the publish'd Observations (1769),--'"

"Introduction to the following Obfervations, made by
Meffieurs Charles Mafon and Jeremiah Dixon, for
determining the Length of a Degree of Latitude, in the
Provinces of Maryland and Pennfylvania in North
America; by the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, B.D. F.R.S.
Aftronomer Royal," Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society, Vol. LVIII, No. XLII, pp. 270-3, Read
Nov. 24, 1768

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=1&size=1&id=pt.1768.x.x.58.x.270

"Obfervations for determining the Length of a Degree
of Latitude in the Provinces of Maryland and
Pennfylvania, in North America, by Meffieurs Charles
Mason and Jeremiah Dixon," Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society, Vol. LVIII, No. XLII, pp.
274-328, Read Nov. 24, 1768 ...

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=8&size=1&id=pt.1768.x.x.58.x.274

Saved by the Internet Library of Early Journals ....

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

Now I just have to find that phrase, "as level for 82
Miles as if it had been formed by Art," in either/both
Maskelyne's Introduction and Mason and Dixon's
Observations, is all.  In the meantime, see as well,
if you have access ...

http://www.jstor.org/journals/03702316.html

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/

Gotta run, but will be back to bat cleanup, so ...

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