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==Page 296==
''''Upon the day appointed...' [[1763#December|December]] 5, 1763'''<br>

'''...the House in Question, to establish its north Wall officially as the southernmost Point of Philadelphia.'''<br>
According to personal communication with Todd M. Babcock, Chairman of the Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership, [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=39+56+27.11961+N+75+08+37.32277+W&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=39.94087,-75.143706&spn=0.004277,0.010664&om=1&iwloc=addr this]to within 5'+/- is the location of the point they surveyed as the southernmost point. The house was called the Plumstead and Huddle House located at 30 South (Cedar) Street and was established as the southernmost point in 1763.

'''Odalisque'''<br>
Turkish- Female slave in a harem

'''...erecting an Observatory in a vacant Piece, nearby...'''<br>
Mr. Babcock gives [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=39+56+28.28549+N+75+08+39.02005+W&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=39.941191,-75.144167&spn=0.004277,0.010664&om=1&iwloc=addr this] as the location of the Observatory to within 5'+/-.

==Page 297==
'''Mr. Chew'''<br>
Benjamin Chew (November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810) was a lawyer, politician and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania...  He held a number of offices in the Pennsylvania colonial government, both elected and appointed. In 1751, he served on the boundary commission that supervised the creation of the Mason-Dixon line.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Chew WIKI]

'''"...easier reading, nicer reading."<br>
Ben Loxley is using 'nice' in its 18th century sense of 'precise, exact', as preserved in the expression 'to a nicety'.

==Page 298==
'''Flower-de-luce'''<br>
another flower-named tavern (like the Orchid.)
"Flower of Light." A lily and a magnetical symbol for North. Also the 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur-de-lis Fleur de lis]<br>

==Page 301==
'''''Cryptoscope'''''<br>
Would not be invented for some time, an early X-Ray machine of sorts, see [http://home.comcast.net/~znhakim/web5/RadiologyrelatedItems/PattersonOperatingFluoroscope.htm THIS LINK] - Later to be known as a Fluoroscope

'''Cecilius Calvert'''<br>
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (August 8, 1605 – November 30, 1675), usually called Cecil, was an English coloniser who was the first proprietor of the Maryland colony.  He received the proprietorship that was intended for his father, George Calvert, the 1st Lord Baltimore, who died shortly before it was granted.  Cecil established Maryland from his home in England, and as a Catholic continued the legacy of his father by promoting Religious tolerance in the colony.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilius_Calvert WIKI]

'''Lord Lepton'''<br>
1. Leptons are a family of elementary particles, alongside quarks and gauge bosons (also known as force carriers).  Like quarks, leptons are fermions (spin-1⁄2 particles) and are subject to the electromagnetic force, the gravitational force, and weak interaction, but unlike quarks, leptons do not participate in the strong interaction...  Leptons are an important part of the Standard Model, especially the electrons which are one of the components of atoms, alongside protons and neutrons.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepton WIKI]

2. Lepton is a suburb of the town of Huddersfield in the English county of West Yorkshire.  It is situated some 7 km to the east of, and 120 m above, the town centre and lies directly north of Lepton Great Wood...  There are three main roads (B roads) which run through Lepton; Rowley Lane which joins Highgate Lane at a mini-roundabout and Station Road which goes onto become Highgate Lane.  From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepton,_West_Yorkshire WIKI]

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