bank of the Sus- quehanna River on the west, a little less than five and a half miles 5 of the historically, geographically and politically famous Mason and Dixon line. It is the shortest strip of this parallel of latitude against any of Pennsylvania's counties adjoining Maryland. The work on this line

well-kept, but other than providing the usual list of minutes, etc., there is little to be learned from them. The available outside sources—mostly local histories of an unscholarly sort—are fragmentary, making only casual reference to the subject in ques- tion. While there is a wealth of local