Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] &#39;Boundary-Making&#39;<br/>
Date: Apr 07, 2001 @ 22:04<br/>
Author: jane capellaro (jane capellaro &lt;j@discovernet.net&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1077340895">martin  this is a most major & indeed causal work  i believe<br/>
<br/>
for example<br/>
the following attachment copied from it shows the now familiar looking  but <br/>
in 1945 probably still seminal  depiction of a median line<br/>
<br/>
in this case it is the median line of lake michigan<br/>
probably selected by boggs because the illinois michigan interstate <br/>
boundary was actually under review for exact delimitation at that time<br/>
tho it had been defined loosely as the middle of lake michigan since 1837<br/>
<br/>
the fact that the subsequent final resolution of the ilmi boundary in 1948 <br/>
didnt completely follow the boggs line but a somewhat simplified & <br/>
approximated equidistance line doesnt diminish the importance of what he <br/>
was putting forth here<br/>
<br/>
& today there may be as many special circumstances as ever to distract <br/>
boundary makers from following the truest possible lines of equidistance<br/>
   as recently seen for example at the courentyne mouth<br/>
     on the guyana suriname boundary<br/>
but the method demonstrated here by boggs perhaps for the first time is <br/>
today a basic principle & guiding beacon of the system of international <br/>
maritime law<br/>
otherwise undreamt of at the time he was offering it<br/>
   unless i am mistaken<br/>
<br/>
m</div>