MD3PAD 595-597

[Toby G Levy]

       Captain Shelby suggests that the sexual image of the serpent in
the well is one that Christians want to eradicate.

        Wicks suggests that this is considered "Stukeleyesque" which the
mason and dixon alpha says is a reference to William Stukeley, an expert
in the druids and Stonehenge.

        Shelby says that the serpent mound at Avebury in England is very
similar to ones Shelby has seen in the Ohio territory. He thinks they
could have been built by "quite similar races of People." He says the
Indians say the serpent mounds were built by a race of giants.

        Mason and Dixon consider Shelby to be eccentric.

        Shelby says the only way to see the shape of the serpent is to
be a hundred feet directly above it.  Mason restrains himself from
asking how Shelby knows this.

        Chapter 61 begins on page 597. One of the mounds is close enough
to visit and Shelby agrees to show it to Mason and Dixon. They leave
early in the morning because Shelby says it needs to be seen at sunrise.
As they move through the wilderness they smell something unusual and
Shelby says that a new barrel-making business has moved into that neck
of the woods.

Toby