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year dispute as to where each ended; and when this 

 finally reached a settlement, an actual line, three hun- 

 dred miles long, had been drawn upon the surface of 

 the earth, separating them positively and finally for 

 all time. North of this line lay the grant of William 

 Penn, the Quaker, and south of it the Mary-Land of 

 George Calvert, the Catholic each gathered to his 

 fathers long before. 



And in cutting this line, through forests, down into 

 valleys, across gullies and streams, up over mountains 

 and ever straight on, into the west, two obscure men, 

 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, carved their 

 names deep into the records of the nation. For Ma- 

 son's and Dixon's line, purely imaginary and follow- 

 ing nothing but the true curve of a line of latitude 

 belting the earth, has marked something greater in the 

 history of the land than the boundary of two provinces 

 or states. Unalterable and fixed as the stars by which 

 it was determined, it seems strangely enough to have 

 defined the limits of something within the people them- 

 selves, to have indicated in a tangible way, differences 

 that set them apart almost as widely as separate races. 



Yet in the founding of the two Colonies Lord Balti- 

 more and William Penn each entertained a similar 

 ideal, each cherished a similar hope, each was working 

 towards the same end a state based upon the highest 

 ideal of religious liberty, a state wherein men of vary- 



