Mason and Dixon's Line.
Mason and Dixon's line is a name given to the southern boundary line of the state of Pennsylvania which separates it from the states of Maryland and Virginia It was run, except about 23 miles, by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English mathematicians and surveyors, between Nov. 15, 1763, and Deo. 26, 1767. During the exciting debate in congress in 1820 on the question of excluding slavery from Missouri the eccentrio John Randolph of fioanoke made great use of this phrase, which was caught up and re-echoed by every newspaper in tho land, and thus gained the celebrity which it still maintains.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 February 1898, Page 4
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107Mason and Dixon's Line. Manawatu Herald, 22 February 1898, Page 4
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