Fall Asleep as a Colonial American Land Surveyor Marking the Mason-Dixon Line

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Tonight, travel into the quiet wilderness of colonial America and experience the remarkable life of a land surveyor whose work helped shape history one careful measurement at a time.

Armed with little more than a compass, a measuring chain, and endless patience, you spend years crossing forests, hills, rivers, and fields to establish an invisible boundary that governments debate, settlers depend upon, and wildlife completely ignores. As you endure changing seasons, muddy trails, curious settlers, persistent mosquitoes, and...