The Fairfax line : Thomas Lewis's journal of 1746. In the following pages is reproduced with literal accuracy the journal kept by Thomas Lewis, surveyor, from September l0, 1746, to February 24, 1747, while he, Colonel Peter Jefferson, and others were surveying and making maps of the southwest line of Thomas lord Fairfax's princely domain in Virginia. It is a story rich in adventure and achievement

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