. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . r ^0R a century and a halfthe term Mason andDixons Line has been amore or less familiar expres-sion, and for the greater partof the latter half of thatperiod it was frequently onmens tongues. The linesdrawn on the earths surfaceby geographers or laid out bythe wisdom of statecraft areoften taken in too literal asense; and so, in the course of time, it came to pass thatMason and Dixons Line came to be regarded almost as atangible barrier: the line dividing the North from the , as a mater of fact, were it not for the m
. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . r ^0R a century and a halfthe term Mason andDixons Line has been amore or less familiar expres-sion, and for the greater partof the latter half of thatperiod it was frequently onmens tongues. The linesdrawn on the earths surfaceby geographers or laid out bythe wisdom of statecraft areoften taken in too literal asense; and so, in the course of time, it came to pass thatMason and Dixons Line came to be regarded almost as atangible barrier: the line dividing the North from the , as a mater of fact, were it not for the monuments setup at stated intervals it would be impossible to tell wherethe jurisdiction of one commonwealth ends and that of theother begins. The mountains and valleys are continuous,the fertile fields lie side by side, there is no difference to befound in the people, and it not unfrequently happens thata farm will lie partly on one side of the line and partly onthe other, and there are even houses through which the lineruns, one part of the house being in Marylan
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