Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: ellicott mound prospects in louisiana was bp msgs 18443ff
Date: May 29, 2006 @ 00:21
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
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From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <robertoreg2003@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: ellicott mound prospects in louisiana
was bp msgs 18443ff
> well lowell since this adventure was already proposed
> & begun by you in 18444ff
> & cheered & abetted by me in 18447ff
> i dont know what i can add to it now while waiting for
> robert to deliver on these new prospects
> except that it is conceivable that his entry into the
> mix might either speed you on your way or else slow
> you down some more
>
> however he has already come back in today with word
> that a program exists for predicting ellicott mound
> locations
> so you may well want to really slow down until that
> catches up with us
>
> but
> also in his preliminary response
> which i have attached below in its entirety tho its
> overall relevancy for louisiana is mostly peripheral
> comes definite word of a mound number 21 at thompsons
> creek
> in case you can & would just cut directly to the chase
> & bag that one without further ado
>
> also noteworthy in the following text is the news that
> the public land survey is indeed not in synch with the
> mounds thereabouts
> so any faint hopes that we formerly had of finding an
> ellicott mound that is also a tricounty point on the
> lams state line are effectively or mostly dashed
> herewith
> thus reducing what was potentially a multipointing
> quest to a purely academic one in all probability
>
> not at all dashed here however is ellicotts reputation
> as a party dog & indian trickster
> which you may also recall from
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/8462
>
>
>
> Greg Spies of Coden, AL has a computer program which
> will predict the location of the mounds within a few
> feet. In 2002, we used Troy State Geomatics students
> to get accurate GPS for Ellicott Mound #381, #299 and
> #231.