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 …showed first 75 words of 561 total…

…showed last 75 words of 561 total…lurking within its boundaries. William Byrd's experiences on this expedition served as the factual basis for his History of the Dividing Line. The History of the Dividing Line was based on an account from his journal. His journal was discussing his whole experience in the wilderness. It was also discussing all the obstacles he had to go through during the journey. In this essay, I discussed the summary of The History of the Dividing Line.