Area In New York And Pennsylvania: In 1763 he laid out the 12-mile radius around Newcastle, which forms the boundary between Pennsylvania and Delaware, accurately with instruments of his own construction, and Mason and Dixon accepted his results as final. In 1769 he located the point where the 41st parallel of latitude, the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, strikes the Delaware River. The same year the Pennsylvania legislature appropriated £200 toward the observations of the transit of Venus.
READING, city, Pennsylvania, seat of Berks County, on the Schuylkill River, 56 miles north-northwest of Philadelphia, at an altitude of 265 feet. It is on state and federal highways and is served by rail, bus, and airlines. An industrial city in the midst of the Pennsylvania Dutch agricultural area in new york and Pennsylvania, it manufactures high-grade alloy steel, hosiery and hosiery machinery, bricks, textiles, dyestuffs, hardware, batteries,elevators and hoists, piping and tubing, food, automobile frames, hats, beverages, and bedding. It is the home of Albright College, the Extension School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wyomissing Center of Pennsylvania State University.
Although the Northeast and Middle West had a head start in railroad building, construction also continued there after the Civil War. All trunk-lines in this area in new york and Pennsylvania aspired to reach New York City and Chicago. Some wished to penetrate farther to St. Louis and Mississippi River points, [f a new source of traffic appeared, such as petroleum in western Pennsylvania, the railroads rushed extensions to the promised land.
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