--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "granthutchison" <granthutchison@b...> wrote:
> Michael:
> > grant another case of believe it or not i still cant get this
> >attachment
> Let me know your full e-mail address (rather then the clipped version
> I can see in Yahoo), and I'll e-mail it to you.
thanx
orc@...
>
> > but it intrigues me & i would like both to see it & compare it to
> > prescott because i had a feeling at one point while i was on the road
> > missing things that you had actually exceeded or were on the brink of
> > exceeding his inventory & perhaps this was the moment right here
> I can't vouch for the small Indian Ocean enclave - it's too close to
> my error limit. The larger one is shown by Prescott, but not discussed
> in his text.
> I list two high seas enclaves not shown by Prescott:
> 1) South Fiji Basin. Prescott doesn't show this because the claims
> bounding it are sufficiently poor he doesn't map them.
> 2) Chatham Rise. Prescott plots the southern NZ enclave on his global
> map, which I think is too small-scale to show the second NZ enclave.
> For some reason he shows neither in his chapter on the South Pacific.
well whatever the ultimate fallout i salute you for taking it to these clearly olympian limits
>
> > also can you describe what the cargados carajos might look like from
> > your admiralty chart
> The chart is dated 1846, with a revision history up to 1993. Cargados
> Carajos is a crescentic coral reef with a chain of islands rising from
> its southern end - one, Coco Island is marked "a little water by
> digging" and another "Trees (conspic)" to the north and west of this
> reef are several small islands, each only a couple of hundred metres
> across: Albatross Island ("Rep'd to lie 6 cables further N'ward.
> H.M.S. Owen 1962"); North Island; Siren Island; Pearl Island
> ("conspic. red roofs") and Frigate Island ("A little water but brackish").
> And in beautiful copperplate down the east side of the reef it reads:
> "This eastern coast was sketched by Lieutenant Mudge in 1825 by means
> of boats which penetrated from the western side among the reefs; as no
> vessel could venture to approach from the Seaward face."
> I often look at the chart and think of Lieutenant Mudge, sweating over
> his sketching paper, and the seamen pulling at the oars and then
> resting, pulling and then resting, all through some breathless,
> simmering, long-ago afternoon.
>
> Grant
an extremely evocative class e visit to say the least matey
& no chantey but i can hear the occasional refrain aye carajos
also read on the web that these islands are completely & deeply covered with guano & tho probably an overexaggeration it may account for their epiepithet cargados that evidently does mean beshatten etc etc in spanish which they formerly were too btw in nationality
so i think there is now a somewhat better understanding tho a full & proper appreciation of this amazing name may still be eluding me since i was imagining there might be some vertically stacked landforms to account for it but from your account we are looking pretty low to the horizon here so still i wonder why carajos
m