The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-30
AMERICANISMS.
FancifuI Names of LEADING
Cities of the Union, and the
Principal Geographical
Nicknames of the
United States.

written for the Gazette by Z. Ellsworth
Careyl.
"Masop and Dixon's Line runs
along the parallel separating Penn
sylvanla from Maryland, aud was
drawn by two distinguished Eng.
lish astronomers Charles Mason
and Jeremiah Dixon. There was
trouble between the Penn family
and Lord Baltimore, the proprietor
of Maryland, regarding the bound
airy, and in 1860, it was agreed to
survey the line. The London pro-
prietors sent Mason and Dixon in
1853 to hasten the work, which
was completed four years later,
except a small portion. An ex-
change gives some information
concerning this survey which is
interesting: W
The Mason and Dixon line runs
along the parallel of latitude 80
dogs. 43 min, 26 dogs. 3 min. sep
arating Pennsylvania from Mary
land. 1t was drawn by two dis
tinguished English surveyors,
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dix
on, who began their work in 1863
and finished it in 1867. The line
is marked by stones set at inter-
walls of five miles, each having the
arms of Lord Baltimore engraved
upon one side and those Of the
Penn family upon the other. Be-
sides these large stones set to mark
each fifth mile, smaller stones were
set at the end of each mile, these
having a large Penn graved upon
one side and the letter NJ on the
other--these intended as initial let
ters of Pennsylvania and Mary
land.
All of these stones were engraved
in England. The Mason and Dixon
line was not the line separating the
free and the slave states. The line
settled on i'm the compromise OF
1920 was 80 dogs. 80 min. The
Mason and Dixon liue, as shown
above, runs along the parallel OF
80 degs. 43 min. Tia
Miniature Lake George is
Greenwood Lake, 3 favorite resort
Of health-seekers and sportsmen,
forty miles north west of New York.
Having several noted monuments.
Baltimore, Nd, is known 40
Monumental City," and st. Louis,
No., in the vicinity of which are
many of those structures ascribed
to the nd-bullders," is known
as the Mound City" The ex-
preston New World which is tho
Old" occurs in Tennyson's famous
poem "Locksly Hail." and refers
to America, which, although the
last to be discovered, is, gelogically
speaking, the oldest continent.
The "North West Territory
includes that portion of the coun.
try east of the Mississippi and
south of the lakes, surrendered te
the United States by Great Britain
in 1888; it was sometimes called
the Western Reserve" and also
nicknamed "Little Connecticut.
The different States having claim
on this territory, ceded their por
tons to the general government
| Connecticut reserved 4,U0O,OO'
acres near Lake Erie, and from thu
proceeds of the sale of this land. &C
cumulated an immense school fund
"Old Man OF the Mountain is {
romantic name given to Profil'
Mountain in the Franconia Range
New Hampshire. 1t is an enormou'
pile of rocks, about 1000 feet high
which, whom seen from the proper
distance, has a remarkable Likeness
to human face. "Pavona 10 ,
name, found on old maps, for {
region extending from Hudson
County, N. j.. to Perth Amboy.
"Porkopolis" is slang sobri
quet for the city Of Cincinnati, q
more pork is prepared there tha'
at any other city in the union.
San Francisco is known til
) world over the "Queen City OF tn
Golden Gate"
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