Which two words are domain-specific technical terms? from Modest Monuments: The District of Columbia Boundary Stones
by Tim St. Onge

Which two words are domain-specific technical terms?
from Modest Monuments: The District of Columbia Boundary Stones
by Tim St. Onge
The story of the boundary stones begins with the Residence Act of 1790, which approved of the creation of a new national capital along the Potomac River. It would be in the shape of a diamond 10 miles on each side, for a 100-square-mile area. The new capital would be carved out of land from Maryland and Virginia. President George Washington, himself an accomplished surveyor, designated Jones Point to be the southern point of the diamond, with the rest of the territory to be surveyed and mapped from there. Beginning in 1791, a team led by Andrew Ellicott, and including famed astronomer and intellectual Benjamin Banneker, set out from Jones Point to perform an initial survey of the new territory…Ellicott and his team were able to complete the full survey on the Virginia and Maryland sides of the Potomac River in 1792. At each mile of the survey, a stone was placed to mark the boundary of the “Territory of Columbia.” In 1846, Virginia’s donated land portion to what had then become the District of Columbia was returned to Virginia, thereby nullifying the original purpose of many of the stones on the diamond’s northwestern and southwestern sides.

diamond, point, survey, sides, boundary