MDDM: 65 Shore of Delaware

[Samuel Moyer]

629-1  All the month of November, Mason and Dixon run the East Line...

As already noted, Mason and Dixon were prevented from going any further West on June 18, 1766 and 
so turned back East, widening the Visto as they went (described in M&D 63 as Stig vs. Beaverman...).

When they returned to the Post Marked West, the commissioners gave them two new tasks:

One was to extend their line eastward to the Delaware River 
and the other was to set thirty-five additional stones on the 
Delmarva Peninsula, as well as sixty-five stones on the 
Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary line heading west.
   --  Judith St. George's _Mason and Dixon's Line of fire_  p. 53.

629-4  the five degrees of Longitude in the original Grant...

Without being exact, the line stretches from 75 degrees to 80 degrees longitude.

Sam
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