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==Page 327==
==Page 328==
'''In the Summer'''<br>
this puts the section from Page 327 to 330 as a flashforward to some summer in the future. In the Journal there is a meeting of the commissioners at Christiana Bridge to recognize M&Ds work on the Tangent Line on [[1764#November|November]] 21-25, 1764. I wouldn't call November Summer, though.

==Page 329==
'''"A sweetness of immorality and corruption."'''<br>
This conspiratorial talking about sugar boycotts makes me think that the events of these pages are happening after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act Sugar Act] of [[1764#April|April]] 5, 1764.

==Page 330==
'''Sun, [[1764#January|January]] 8, 1764'''<br>
from the journal: "Fixed on the house of Mr. John Harland's (about 31 miles West of Philadelphia) to bring our instruments to."<br> However, it appears that they actually returned to Philidelphia on the 9th to get the observatory and tools and then returned to the Harlands on the 14th where they "set up the sector in his Garden (inclosed in a tent), and in the Evening brought the Instruments into the Meridian, and took the following observations..."<br>

==Page 333==

'''"By February..." [[1764#February|February]] 28th, 1764<br>
<br>
'''"In March a Company of Axmen...clear a Visto..." [[1764#March|March]] 17- [[1764#April|April]] 12, 1764'''

==Page 334==

'''Tangent Line'''<br>
[http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/#fig6 diagram]<br>

'''"Alexander Bryant"'''<br>
listed as '''Alexander Bryan''' in the Journal and all historical records.<br>

'''By June...they are instructed to proceed...'''<br>
They set out on [[1764#June|June]] 13, 1764.

==page 335==

'''...centered upon the Spire of the Court House in New Castle...'''<br>
[http://www.newcastlecity.net/visitors/bldgs.html#Courthouse Courthouse]
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=+211+Delaware+Street,+New+Castle,+DE&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=39.659801,-75.563643&spn=0.004072,0.010664&om=1 location][http://www.state.de.us/gic/photos/collections/historic/810.shtml photo]

==page 339==

'''In August they finally go chaining past the eighty-one-mile mark...'''<br>
happens on [[1764#August|August]] 25, 1764.

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