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and. settled forever DIE elaims rthe

annosities and settled forever the claims ofsthe
disputants. 1T was. in fact. nothing more than
a ratification or reafirmances of the agreement
of 1889, synopsis of which we gayesaboye.
The agreement provided for a Joint commission
10 ascertain, run out and mark the lines. In {
November Of The same year (lF80) the COM
missioners, seven:from each Proprietary-met
at New CastleEand entered upon operations
Three years were spent by the commissioners
to very little purpose. when the proprietors. be.
coming impatient at the want Of progress Of
the commissioners (for we suspect thew we're
lnot masters Of. the science of mensuration or
surveying, as tits at the present =dayl had them
removed and the two men, Mason and Dixon,
whose names have become famous, appointed in
their stead. In November, 1868, they began
operations But. We leave. The history. of tho
prosecution of their work. for another day.
Jeremiah Mason and Charles Dixo6.s were
1.-Two astronomers of. consif1erS,bie J;St;rction
residents Of London. IA August 176s thew
were emnlove1 bv the PennsS and Lord.sRalt
more, to run the line between. Arrived in
PHILADELPHIA in November furnished with the
best instruments and occoutrements for their
undertaking thew set .bont II ot.onca First
thew established nm observatory in pbil.delnh;o
for the entertainment of the true latitndc Tho,
tben find the southern Of the limits If that
citv.s this. line thevex,snf- enon,b ,,ost 81
be due north Of the tongent innint on The circn.
,or line around, New Costle +bonc. so,th ar
teen niles and they then have poined the trne
latitude of the great east and vest line between
the two pronrietaries; ,rhev then rsn.;rst, tto
tangent noint which 10 still. sontb &c Tho n,o;n
line las appears by an, examination of the mani
and measure due north till: tber comesto the
main line Here, at thesinterseetion Of the two
Hines, they plant the corner stone which is the
beginning of Mason & Diron's line r' It is
,sss 800 s'sOsSo t'.se - Is
,o.r. 600 ,,o ;.,cs,.,, rs.
beon n9dsr,niaad 3, AL - s.''s
~ s4Asn ~ :
5;sa;ea, 80; .es9
49, :
placed by. another. 1870 = S1S'
f Rnt To ratnrn z,c -o,,r- listor,, ,rho,r;,a;,.oI
STARTING .noint be;no oscorta;nod ~ a,oat Iabo.
of tbe Indsrt.kino hooins - 49,
nnmber Of assistants ~, a,u,,,ioroo. i go,
ON the work such &c 5oo,.rio,,.
Ecooks. barpare-mcn and otbcr servonts Tn tho
fall of 1868, they Ind reached noint az niles
west Of the Snsonehonno Tbev resn,ne oo,in
the following Snrinc and on the 4tb &c .fSno
thev arc on the ton of Ti,t1a sllenbona 49,, NY
Htains, GO miles from tbc beoinnine of their line
Here they wore arrested in tIoir -, ,o,,..o
The Indiansthronrt
,yero non go ~
tTeCusce@to #aowtbsT ito recea5 GEsasr 80,
with disannoinfnan ffr tba, ;,oro r1a.sed 81
Jealous zin. the undeFtakinol tbev ta1.ssSn tba
backward N arch The q erm.ns% ftba st,o
States b6wavar io;bsd 4 olYtain;no. go
tconnc,:of
= ssts l
the WORK. = .s''e.' : .,'0Ss5Ss -
Accordingly it was resumed in the summer of
!l767. In a short time they arrived at the west.
ern limit of MARYLAND. and here ii miebt bo
supposed they would stop. since beyond that
Maryland was no longer concerned But such
was not the case. They still pushed On la,, Nv
the enthusiastic London astronomers md roil
flowed by the mixed re,inue, IN a due line. west
No doubt they considered their task to be. to fix
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