The History of the Dividing Line

The History of the Dividing Line is an account of the surveying trip that William Byrd led to draw the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina. The History of the Dividing Line is a story about the early travelers' journey to America. In this story, Byrd is writing about the early travelers coming to America. The romantic quality of his writing left the History without a greater context until the nineteenth century when the Romantic Movement began. This single text, and its treatment through the ages, represents the perception of the American wilderness as a concept, both at hom…