"Now, many is the philosophickal Mind,— including my own,— convinced that rapid motion through the air is possible along and above certain invisible straight Lines, crossing the earthly land?scape, particularly in Britain, where they are known as Ley-lines. Any number of devout1 enthusiasts2, annual Stonehenge and Ave-bury Pilgrims, Quacks4, Mongers, Bedlamites,— each has his tale of real flights over the countryside, above these Ley-lines. Withal, 'tis possible to transfer from one of them to another, and thus in theory travel to the furthest reaches of the Kingdom, without once touching6 the Earth. Something is there, that permits it. No one knows what it is, tho' thousands speculate.
"Here went we off upon the most prodigious8 such Line yet attempted,— in America, where undertakings9 of its scale are possible,— astronomically10 precise,— carefully set prisms of Oolite,— the Master-valve of rose Quartz11, at the eastern Termi?nus. Any Argument from Design, here, must include a yearning12 for Flight, perhaps even higher and faster than is customary along Ley-lines we know. I try not to wonder. I must wonder. Whenever the Surveyors separate, they run into Thickets13, Bogs14, bad Dreams,— united, they pursue a ride through the air, they are link'd to the stars, to that inhuman15 Precision, and are deferr'd to because of it, tho' also fear'd and resented—"
- Wicks Cherrycoke, Spiritual Day-Book
March is snowy and frozen, clear nights are rare, and the Surveyors need
ev'ry one they can get for Azimuth observations to find out the exact Direction westward17, to strike off in. Ev'rything upon the Ground, by April, as they're about to begin the West Line, must be sighted thro' a haze18 of green Resurrection.
"There'll be more out there than Stars to gaze at," says Mr. Harland, who's hired on as an Instrument-Bearer at five shillings a day. "Over Susquehanna,— once you've cross'd the York to Baltimore Road,— you'll see."
"I grew up west of that Road," adds Mrs. Harland, "and he ain't just hummin' 'Love in a Cottage,' either. Tis not for ev'rybody,— I know I lit East as soon's I was tall enough to cry in the right Uncle's ale-can, and it's also how I met the Wild Ranger19 here, who's never been west of Elk20 Creek21. Maybe it's not even for you, Johnny."
"Tho' we do understand your Sentiments, Ma'am," Mason advises, "we are legally restrain'd from intervening in anyone's family business."
"Ah well, too bad, tried my best, fate is fate, Lord'll provide," she car?ols, bustling22 back into the House.
"Took it awfully23 well, I thought," says Mason.
"Maybe not," John Harland shaking his head as he follows her in. "Better go see."
"She never actually said she wanted him off the Crew," Dixon notes.
"It's what she meant. You have to understand them, Dixon, they've this silent language, that only men of experience speak at all fluently."
"Then why is it I've lost count of how many of my evenings tha've ruin'd, with thy talk of Cannibalism24, or Suicide, or Bickering25 among the Whigs... ? anything, but what 'they' wish to hear?"
"Unannounc'd blow."
Robert Boggs comes running by with fifty-weight of Harness hanging from each Shoulder. "Some Stranger over there by the Monument, acting26 peculiar27." Off he runs again.
They go to see,— and there he is, up in the corner of Harland's field, curiously28 prostrated29 before the chunk30 of Rose Quartz where cross the Lat?itude of the south Edge of Philadelphia, and the Longitude31 of the Post Mark'd West,— the single Point to which all work upon the West Line (and its eastward32 Protraction to the Delaware Shore) will finally refer. All about, in the Noontide, go Waggoners and Instrument-Bearers in Commo?tion, preparing for the Translation south to Mr. Bryant's Field, and the
Post Mark'd West. Swifts come out in raiding-parties, but avoid the lumi?nous Stone,— Dogs wait at what they've learn'd is a safe distance from it.
"Quite powerful," when they have coax'd him back at last to their own regime of Light, " - where'd you boys find this one? Whoo-ee!" He has been trying to find what in his Calling is known as the "Ghost," another Crystal inside the ostensible34 one, more or less clearly form'd. ' 'Tis there the Pictures appear.. .tho' it varies from one Operator to the next,— some need a perfect deep Blank, and cannot scry in Ghost-Quartz. Others, before too much Clarity, become blind to the other World...my own Crystal,"— he searches his Pockets and produces a Hand-siz'd Specimen35 with a faint Violet tinge,— "the Symmetries are not always easy to see...here, these twin Heptagons...centering your Vision upon their Common side, gaze straight in,—
"Aahhrrhh!" Mason recoiling36 and nearly casting away the crystal.
"Huge, dark Eyes?" the Scryer wishes to know.
"Aye.— Who is it?" Mason knows.
"The Face I see is a bit more friendly,— but then 'twould have to be, wouldn't it, or I'd be in some other line of Work."
His name is Jonas Everybeet, and in the time he travels with the Party, he will locate, here and there across the Land, Islands in Earth's Magnetic Field,— Anomalies with no explanation for being where they are,— other than conscious intervention37 by whoever or whatever was here before the Indians. "Anyone's Guess what they're for. And then your own very long Row of Oolite Shafts38. Perfectly39 lin'd up with the Spin of the Earth. Suggestive, anyhow."
"Of what?"
"Think of Mr. Franklin's Armonica. Rather than a Finger circling upon the stationary40 Rim3 of a Glass, the Finger keeps still, whilst the Rim rotates. As long as there is movement between the two, a note is produc'd. Similarly, this Oolite Array, at this Latitude41, is being spun42 along at more than seven hundred miles per hour,— spun thro' the light of the Sun, and whatever Medium bears it to us. What arises from this? What Music?"
Ev'ryone has a Point of View they wish to persuade the Surveyors to. "Sometimes you're the Slate," Mason observes, "sometimes you're the Chalk.”
"Eeehh!" Dixon frowns. "And here again is that bothersome Crimp, O'Rooty." The Body-jobber offering them his Services, can arrange, he declares, for "any Work-force, at any level of skill, anywhere you want, when you want them. For instance I imagine you'll be needing some axmen. Hey? Do I know this Business? First thing to decide is how much you want to spend,— local Lads at three and six per Diem, or, for what prices out to but a few farthings more,"— picks up a couple of Powder-Horns, places them either side of his head,— "Scandinavians! yes, the famous Swedish Loggers, each the equal of any ten Axmen these Colonies may produce. Finest double-bit Axes, part of the Package, life?time Warranty43 on the Heads, seventy-two-hour replacement44 Policy, cus-tomiz'd Handle for each Axman, for 'Bjorn may not swing like Stig, nor Stig like Sven,' as the famous Timothy Tox might say,— Swedish Steel here, secret Processes guarded for years, death to reveal them, take you down a perfect swathe of Forest, trimm'd and cleared, fast as you're likely to chain the distance.— Parts of a single great Machine,— human muscle and stamina45 become but adjunct to the deeper realities of Steel that never needs Sharpening, never rusts,—
"Oh, come, Sir!" the Surveyors exclaim together.
"So then take but one, take Stig here, on a trial basis only, pay what you think he's worth, if you don't like him, send him back.—
Next in line behind O'Rooty comes a "Developer," or Projector46 of Land-Schemes.
"Kill him," advises Dixon, before anyone can get in a word. Mason risks a quick lateral47 Squint48, but can neither see nor smell any sign of Intoxication49. "And do it sooner rather than later, as it only gets more dif?ficult with time."
Since early in their acquaintance, the two have learn'd to mutter together so as to remain unheard beyond a Pipe-stem's Length. The Pro7?jector, devotedly50 binocular and far too brisk, moves in an industrious51 Hop52 from one foot to the other, back and forth53. "This is someone you know?" Mason not yet all that alarm'd.
"In general only. But work'd for enough of them, didn't I. Not proud of m'self for it. Needed the money." So abridg'd is this reply that Mason sur?mises some long and probably tangled54 Iliad of Woe55 back among the
Friths and Fells, which did not work out in Favor of Dixon, who contin?ues, "Well, then...? Whah's thy preference?"
"Ehm,— what?"
"As to which of us will do the Deed."
"Deed...?"
"You know,— " cocking a rigid56 Finger toward their Visitor, who at last grows aware of being under Discussion.
"Um, Dixon,— come back to the Tent for a moment, would you... yes...yes there's a good chap,— just a word,— excuse us, please, small technical Question, quite trivial really,— come along, good, there we go." Mason, having visited Bedlam5 as well as Tyburn, in a profound Mime57 of calm and Patience, Dixon playing his part with equal vigor58, using as his models any number of Lunaticks to be found in Bishop59, any market day.
The first day of the West Line, April 5th, falls upon a Friday,— the least auspicious60 day of the week to begin any enterprise, such as sailing from Spithead, for example.
To stand at the Post Mark'd West, and turn to face West, can be a trial for those sentimentally61 inclin'd, as well as for ev'ryone nearby. It is pos?sible to feel the combin'd force, in perfect Enfilade, of ev'ry future sec?ond unelaps'd, ev'ry Chain yet to be stretch'd, every unknown Event to be undergone,— the unmodified Terror of keeping one's Latitude.
They have been held up by the Weather,— first Snow, which by the fourth day, even undrifted, has reached a depth of two feet and nine inches,— then clouded Skies, which prolong the impossibility of Zenith observations. Thursday night the fourth, the Sky is finally clear enough for them to determine their Latitude exactly. The next day, the weather holding, they decide not to waste the Friday, but to seize it, bad luck and all.
A few wrinkles to be smooth'd. Messrs. Darby and Cope have left till the last Minute, the Question of who's to go before, and who behind, upon the Chain. The phrases "Good enough" and "More or less" must be dis?couraged from the outset. Rules of precedence for Dixon's Circumferen-tor have to be work'd out, principally that, in case of Conflict, it must ever defer16 to the Sector,— Astronomy before Magnetism62.
At last, Mr. Cope pulls up his Bob, and gathers and stows his Plumb-line, thus removing his end of the Chain from the Post Mark'd West,— proceeding63 then in that Direction, across the snowy Field, to Mr. Darby's former Station. Detachment. The beginning of the West.
So they set off, the Chain a-jingle, Waggons64 a-rumble, farm Geese a-blare, heading into Farmland with a quiet Roll to it, watch'd by deer and kine, under the usual injunctions against trampling65 Garden patches or molesting66 Orchards67, the Instruments, with a Tent of their own, stranger than anything the Party expects to see between here and Little Christiana,— which isn't much anyway, owing to the Trees, for which eleven more Axmen hire on, the second week.
"You'd think these Instruments were alive," Matthew Marine68 grum?bles, "riding in Waggons upon feather Mattresses69, whilst we slodge along behind, don't we?"
"May be they are alive, Matty."
"Aye and from someplace very far away 's well, Matty."
"Accounts for why they look all Brass70 and Glass and all...?"
"Boys now don't be telling me such things,— do you swear?"
Nodding solemnly, "Far, far away, Matt."
"Distant and strange."
"New-Jersey?"
"They do need tender Handling, boys," young Nathanael McClean tries sternly to advise the five-shilling Hands.
"Like your Mother's Pussy," is the reply.
"My Mother?" counters the young Swamper equably, "Say,—
Just saw your Mother, going out, to shoot, Somebody stepp'd on her Infantry71 Boots,—
"Aye? Well,—
I saw your Mother, and I Quiz you not,— Drinking penny-Gin from a Chamber-Pot."
"Ladies, please, there are Gentlemen present," announces Overseer of the Axmen Moses Barnes ("Is ev'ry body 'round here nam'd Moses?"),
seven and six per week, approaching with a heaviness of Step often felt minutes before his actual appearance. "Hark, is it Poetry? dear me Cedric, where've I put my Quill72?" Those anxious to be his friends greet this with prolong'd Mirth. Barnes is a large Enforcer of Rules, with beefy undeluded eyes and a Reluctance73 to be far from the Cook Tent. Having long intimidated74 Commissaries into serving him gigantic piles of food, he has achiev'd a Mass 'twould shame a Military Waggon33. Implicit75 in most of his dealings with the Axmen is the threat that should they fail to comply closely enough with his Wishes, this enormous yet mobile Weight may in some way unspoken,— and, 'tis further implied, unspeakable,— be directed against them.
Takes them less than a week to run the Line thro' somebody's House. About a mile and a half west of the Twelve-Mile Arc, twenty-four Chains beyond Little Christiana Creek, on Wednesday, April roth, the Field-Book reports, "At 3 Miles 49 Chains, went through Mr. Price's House."
"Just took a wild guess," Mrs. Price quite amiable76, "where we'd build it,— not as if my Husband's a Surveyor or anything. Which side's to be Pennsylvania, by the way?" A mischievous77 glint in her eyes that Barnes, Farlow, Moses McClean and others will later all recall. Mr. Price is in Town, in search of Partners for a Land Venture. "Would you Gentlemen mind coming in the House and showing me just where your Line does Run?" Mason and Dixon, already feeling awkward about it, oblige, Dixon up on the Roof with a long Plumb-line, Mason a-squint at the Snout of the Instrument. Mrs. Price meantime fills her Table with plates of sour-cherry fritters, Neat's-Tongue Pies, a gigantick Indian Pudding, pitchers78 a-slosh with home-made Cider,— then producing some new-hackl'd Streaks79 of Hemp80, and laying them down in a Right Line accord?ing to the Surveyors' advice,— fixing them here and there with Tacks81, across the room, up the stairs, straight down the middle of the Bed, of course,.. .which is about when Mr. Rhys Price happens to return from his Business in town, to find merry Axmen lounging beneath his Sassafras tree, Strange Stock mingling82 with his own and watering out of his Branch, his house invaded by Surveyors, and his wife giving away the Larder83 and waving her Tankard about, crying, "Husband, what Province were we married in? Ha! see him gape84, for he cannot remember. 'Twas in Pennsylvania, my Tortoise. But never in Maryland. Hey? So from now on,
when I am upon this side of the House, I am in Maryland, legally not your wife, and no longer subject to your Authority,— isn't that right, Gents?"
"Ask the Rev," they reply together, perhaps having noticed that Mr. Price is carrying a long Pennsylvania Rifle, two horns full of Powder, and a good supply of Balls.
"Eh?" the Revd, by all signs unaware85 of the trouble the Gentlemen are putting him to, not to mention in, beams at the so far but perplex'd back-Inhabitant. "I know but how to perform the Ceremony,— perhaps you need to consult an attorney-at-Law?"
"Separating Neighbors is one thing," Rhys Price declares, "— but separating Husband and Wife,— no wonder you people get shot at all
the time. No wonder those Chains are call'd the D——l's Guts86." He must
struggle to work himself up into a Rage,— owing to an insufficient87 expo?sure, so far, to Evil and Sorrow, remaining a Youth who trusts all he may meet, to be as kindly88 dispos'd as he.
"What'll happen is," Alex McClean advises, "is you'll get hammer'd paying double taxes, visits all the time from Sheriffs of both provinces looking for their quitrents, tax collectors from Philadelphia and Annapo?lis, and sooner or later you'll have to decide just to get it up on some Logs, and roll it, one way or the other. Depends how your Property runs, I'd guess."
".. .as North is pretty much up-hill," Mr. Price is reckoning, " 'twould certainly not be as easy, to roll her up into Pennsylvania, as down into Maryland."
"Where I am no longer your Wife," she reminds him.
"Aye, and there's another reason," he nods soberly. "Well then, let's fetch the Boys and get to it,— 'tis Maryland, ho!”
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insufficient
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