Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] possible explanation for undermeasurement of 12mile arc
Date: Feb 13, 2005 @ 23:43
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] possible explanation for undermeasurement of 12mile
arc
>
> --- "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to find the time to delve into the legal
>> history of this short arc
>
> fantastic
> & when you can
> please read or reread first of all that the center
> point of the undermeasured 1934 arc is stated in the
> same 1935 supreme court document below that gives the
> measurement itself
>
> & this center point is
> the same new castle county courthouse spire that was
> used for most of the several other arc segment radii
>
> so your possible alternative explanation to my
> possible explanation here below is actually impossible
>
> also feast your eyes on these pre1934 topos
> http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.cfm?fname=smyr31ne.jpg&state=DE
> especially
> & also
> http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.cfm?fname=wlmt06se.jpg&state=DE
> which confirm my surmise about the location of the
> natural left bank before artificial island was added
> &
> show an arc of much longer radius too
>
> indeed this earlier depiction of the arc appears to
> place it in substantially the correct position
>
> all of which helps visualize my possible explanation
> still standing tall & solo here below
> even if still only possible
>
> & also underscores how egregious if not outrageous the
> foreshortening of the arc radius must have seemed at
> least to some observers at the time
>
> so i gotta figure that must have left at least a trace
> somewhere
> like say in the local newspapers when the supreme
> court decisions were announced
>
> & i also think your mr schenck here would be the one
> to begin to both question & inform about all this
>
> for yes i do know about him & this site of his & its
> 179 official delaware border rocks etc etc
> if he is the same schenck i once tried to tell about
> the 180th one i had also found
> as described in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12253
>
>
> but he never responded & never added it to his data
> set either
> so i dont know what to make of him or it
>
> perhaps you would like to try him out fresh tho
>
> he could be helpful after all
>
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