MD3PAD 340-342

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> Subject: MD3PAD 340-342
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>         After three months of calculations Mason and Dixon have pinned
> down the radius between the tangent point and the courthouse, which by
> modern methods will prove to be off by only two feet and two inches.
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there's a wealth of material online, but does anyone have a favorite link with pictures and circles and arrows of the Line?  To help visualize it?

> 
>         Here chapter 33 comes to a close.  There has been a lot of clock
> time in this chapter. It was the middle of November 1762 when Mason and
> Dixon arrived in the New World back in chapter 26. It takes until
> chapter 31 to get to late December. There's no discussion of time in
> chapter 32, but chapter 33 begins in summer and by the time it is over,
> it's December 1764.

And Aunt Euphie would - according to her story - have been in Turkey by now.  She referred to '61 as the time she sailed.

> 
>         Chapter 34 begins on page 341. Mason had intended to go to
> Lancaster alone to review the carnage committed by the Paxton boys
> against the indians, but Dixon said it was too dangerous and went with
> him. They arrived in Lancaster on January 10th 1765. They stay at an inn
> called The Cross Keys, which is filled with well to do lawyers and
> politicians. They hire an earthy guide named Jabez to show them around.
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Is it correct to say that they got to take the winters off?