The History of Mason and Dixon's Line

[Dave Monroe]

And see as well here, of course ...

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/handwriting.html

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey ho, whaddaya know ...
> 
> Latrobe, John H.B.  The History of Mason and Dixon's
>    Line.  Philadelphia: Historical Society of
>    Pennsylvania, 1855.
> 
> http://www.webincunabula.com/html/la/latrobe.htm
> 
> From David Foreman, "Historical Documents Relating
> to Mason & Dixon," Pynchon and Mason & Dixon, ed.
> Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin (Newark: U of
> Delaware P, 2000), pp. 143-66 ...
> 
>    "Edward Bennett Mathews repeats Latrobe's
> observations about Mason and Dixon in his 1909
> history of the boundary dispute, as does Earl Schenk
> Miers in his 1965 essay, Border Romance.  In The
> Stargazers, a novel remarkably similar to Pynchon's
> work in many respects, Barbara Susan Lefever also
> portrays the two according to Latrobe's design.
> Lefever's Mason is the older, strong-willed, advice-
> dispensing astronomer.  Dixon is less restrained."
> (p. 157)

I'm doing all this the hard way, apparently ...

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