Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] library of congress
Date: Apr 07, 2005 @ 17:24
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:57 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] library of congress
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>
> still waiting for my researchers
>
> re the denj arc
> no maps have yet been found associated with the 1905 denj compact that
> the special master based his recommendation on in 1934
> & which i may only have wrongly presumed was the basis for the location
> of the arc
>
> & the text of the compact makes no specific mention of the location of
> this arc either
> but only refers to the 12 mile circle generally
> yikes
>
> so that is a most peculiar apparent dead end
>
> & they are going to have to get back to me on it in case they missed
> something
>
> i am still pretty satisfied tho that i did find among the map exhibits
> at least a 1925 regeneration of whatever map was used to set the
> location
> whenever & however it actually was agreed upon
>
> so the graphical source of the determination of the location is known
> even if not yet the exact cause of its weirdness
>
>
>
> & the 1893 hodgkins & 1908 mathews reports from the bus&ss bibliography
> that are indispensable for other & related questions have been acting
> similarly elusive
>
> so i may have hit a multiple brick wall here
> especially as my researcher is about to head out to lunch now
>
> but more later