Show ORIGIN OP MASON AND DIXON'S historic Mason and Dixon's Line l is a name that was given to the boun- eS dary line between Maryland and Penn-sylvania about one hundred and fifty years It coincides with 39 Eist 45 and north m Except for a distance of twenty-two miles the line was marked out Charles Mason and Jeremiah English They surveyed for a distance of miles west of the Delaware between Novem-S 01 and December bit Each stone bears the coat-of-n Kid arms of Maryland cut on one side of Pennsylvania on the The p cei Intervening milestones bear the letter c cut on one side and the letter of on the t During the progress of the im debate In Congress in which suited in the historic measure as the Missouri on question of excluding slavery from John Randolph made the and Dixon's as the dividing line between la 15 slave and free Maryland at time being a slave state and vania a free At that time the and crossing of the line from the a meant freedom to the fugitive The reference thus made to the bet son and Dixon's Line by Randolph a dividing between slave and states brought the phrase into al and it continued to designates chei the line between freedom and no ch till after the civil e cost |