MD3PAD 328-330

[Toby G Levy]

        It's now summer and Mason and Dixon are in a bar named
"Janvier's" where there is much political activity.

vw#79: pluvial - of or relating to rain; rainy.

vw#80: ridotto - A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of
music and dancing.

        Mason and Dixon find themselves arguing with a drunk gentleman
casting aspersions on their profession.  Besides the alcohol, a great
deal of coffee is consumed in the bar, with so much coffee-dust being
generated that it affects the workers at the bar.  Wicks suggests that
the combination of alcohol and coffee has created a new sort of
European.

        There is much anti-British talk in the bar. There is much unrest
in and around Philadelphia. But by now Mason and Dixon are about
thirty-one miles due west of the southernmost point of Philadelphia and
are setting up a new observatory at the farm of a man named John
Harland.

Toby