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The Mason-Dixon line ® ;surely the most famous surveyors line ever drawn ® represents one of the greatest and most
difficult scientific achievements of its time. But behind this significant triumph is a thrilling story, one that has
thus far eluded both historians and surveyors. In this engrossing narrative, professional surveyor Edwin Danson takes
us on a fascinating journey with Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two gifted and exuberant English surveyors, through
the fields and forests of eighteenth-century America. . Vividly describing life in the backwoods and the hardships and
dangers of frontier surveying, Drawing the Line discloses for the first time in 250 years many hitherto unknown
surveying methods, revealing how Mason and Dixon succeeded where the best American surveyors of the period failed. In
accessible, ordinary language, Danson masterfully throws the first clear light on the surveying of the Mason-Dixon
line. Set in the social and hist orical context of pre-Revolutionary America, this book is a spellbinding account of
one of the great and historic achievements of its time.
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