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[Toby G Levy]

        Mason asks Dixon if his trip inside the Earth negates the
concept of hell. Dixon says only that hell is not inside the Earth.
Mason asks about the Devil and Dixon says he was examined by somebody
who asked him if he was sure that the body is all there is to the man.

        Dixon says he was transported back to his observatory in what
seemed just minutes and he opened his bible at random and read Job
26:5-7. The three lines are repeated from the King James version
verbatim.

        Mason prepares to leave and invites Dixon to visit him next
summer in Sapperton but Dixon says he must not travel far.  So Mason
says he will meet Dixon at any time and place he likes. Mason calls
Dixon a friend as he leaves.

        Chapter 76 begins on page 744. Wicks says that Samuel Johnson,
accompanied by Boswell travelled through Scotland in August 1773.  He
speculates on what might have occurred had Boswell, then 64 years old,
ran into the 45 year old Mason in a Scottish pub. Ives complained that
they probably did not pass within a hundred miles of each other.  Wicks
is not deterred.

        Mason informs Johnson that he has been sent by Maskelyne to
find a Scottish mountain that fits Maskelyne's specifications.  Johnson
wonders if Maskelyne has been directed to find a mountain that Clive of
India might purchase.

Toby