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206. Boundaries of the State. — The boundaries of the original thirteen States were determined by royal charters and by actual settlement. The king and his advisers were totally ignorant of the geography of Amer- ica, and the charters bred hopeless confusion in colonial boundaries which led to disputes between some of the States. The map (p. 128) shows the claims of the East- 114 CIVIL GOVERNMENT. em States in 1781 and the State cessions to the United States. Every State boundary has been accur...ately sur- veyed. Some State lines have become historic, as the southern boundary of Pennsylvania, known as Mason and Dixon's line, after the names of the two surveyors who in 1766 marked off the line as decided by the English Board of Trade. They placed the arms of Pennsylvania on the north face of the boundary-stones, and on the south face the arms of Lord Baltimore. The boundary owes its fame to the fact that it became the boundary between two in- dustrial sections of the country, the slave and the free.
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