M&D Observing at the Cape

[Mark Kohut]

And I say Right On, I believe (because you not my own unprovable connections) 

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> On Jan 6, 2018, at 10:14 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "During those five years they [M&D] wrote their names on the heart of America."
> 
> I'm too old and lazy to devote scrupulous, scholarly months (years?) to building a never-conclusive argument that P must have seen the Cope article by such-and-such a date. (Remember all those years when a granule of gossip about his interest in the M-D Line led to confident assertions that he had a big Civil War novel in the works?)
> 
> Instead, based on a score of turns of phrase and thought in congruence and correspondence between the article and the novel, I'll just say I *know* he read and used it, and 'fuck off' to anyone who doubts it. 
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 9:31 AM, bulb <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:
>> Very nice 1944 article on M&D & the Venus Transit (article which mentions to
>> my surprise the star Fomalhaut, the ship in Against the Day; and also: "The
>> only report from the Western Hemisphere was made from St. John's,
>> Newfoundland, by Professor John Winthrop of Harvard College who had been
>> sent to this post by the Colony of Massachusetts Bay").
>> 
>> https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/viewFile/21511/21280
>> 
>> THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION OF CHARLES MASON AND JEREMIAH DIXON*
>> By THOMAS D. COPE
>> University of Pennsylvania
>> 
>> Michel.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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