Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] hard tri country data playing hard to get
Date: Jan 04, 2001 @ 20:26
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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yes
bernd & arif & rolf & everyone who showed up there recently

good to remember everyone

brownlie is pure honey too

m

well worth the hour also
but nothing more new from prescott in asia yet

>
>Today I located Brownlie in the Royal Danish Library. I was supprised to
>see how small and compact it was, but I liked it alot. I bought a 20-copy
>card and brought some home for my bed time reading.
>
>Just imaging the hour of work put into it.
>
>I am also glad to see my sites (and Bernd's) appear on the int boundary list.
>
>Jesper
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "michael donner" <m@...>
>To: <boundarypoint@egroups.com>
>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:54 PM
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] hard tri country data playing hard to get
>
>
>> jesper
>> nice to see y&our pages turn up on the int boundaries list
>>
>>
>> prospects of extracting additional tripoint data from regional bibles
>> as was recently done rather easily for all 59 african tripoints
>> diminished sharply today when our best hope
>> map of mainland asia by treaty by jrv prescott
>> not a map but a book
>> proved to be less forthcoming than expected with the desired data
>> being quite different from brownlie in format & treatment
>>
>> therefore it is beginning to look very much as if brownlie was a uniquely
>> lucky situation for us
>> & not likely to be repeated
>> & that for info on the remaining 102 tripoints on continents other than
>> africa we will be thrown back upon what can be gleaned from gideon almost
>> exclusively
>>
>> still i am wading thru 500 pages of treaty text like a pig in shit
>> & will report back out from time to time
>>
>> m