MD3PAD 616-618

[Toby G Levy]

        This chapter (Chapter 62) which started with a reference to the
story's current date of April 22nd, concludes with the date of June
14th.  This is the date that Mason writes in his field notes that his
party stood at the top of the Allegheny Divide.  This is the place where
Bouquet set his edict that settlers could go no further west.

        But soon they are met by perhaps a half dozen rough looking
settlers who demand to know who sent them.  They are as hostile to the
King as the Penns.  Dixon offers them jobs in the crew chopping down
trees.

        Zhang talks about Bouquet's plans to have settlements on the
plains in the shape of five squares making the Greek cross.  Shelby says
that many people come up with schemes like that every year and they all
fail, but Zhang says that sooner or later one will succeed.

        Chapter 63 begins on page 618. The date is now August 4th.
There's another great thunderstorm frightening Mason and Dixon.  They
are headed back east. The next day they pass by the house of Zepho Beck
and his wife, which they have managed to avoid on the trip west.

Toby