MD3PAD 472-474

[Toby G Levy]

        Mason wonders if they should allow Darby and Cope to use other
instruments besides the chains but Dixon says no. Mason makes fun of
Dixon's attachment to his tools.

        Darby and Cope show up and talk business with Mason and Dixon.

vw#107: Stichomythia - An ancient Greek arrangement of dialogue in
drama, poetry, and disputation in which single lines of verse or parts
of lines are spoken by alternate speakers.

        Darby and Cope confess to masquerading as Mason and Dixon.

        A group of newly hired axmen come looking for the "chinamen."
Dixon explains that Overseer Barnes was having a joke with them, and
that Darby and Cope were "chainmen," not "chinamen." But Squire Haligast
predicts that a Chinaman will arrive soon.

        Finally they are ready to begin moving west again on June 22nd,
another Saturday.  Just before they cross the river, a fast rider comes
with a package containing the newly published book by Fr. Boscovich,
entitled "De Solis et Lunae Defectibus" which translates to On Eclipses
of the Sun and the Moon. It was sent by Maskelyne who directs their
attention to the part which indicates the effect of mountains on the
workings of plumb lines.

Toby