Subject: Re: Mike's comments on movement of ksmone
Date: Oct 13, 2002 @ 00:37
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "jparsell" <jparsell@n...> wrote:
> The shift of this tripoint may explains why we had trouble
> locating the old cast iron monument marking the starting point
> of the base line of the 6th Principal Meridian. The distance
> from the river bank to the monument was much too short and
thus
> must have been from the original riverbank many years ago.
We
> were looking out on the flood plain and the monument is up on
> the high bluff to the west.
>
> Also, I noticed that on page 25 of the congressional hearing on
> this boundary, that apparent women's libber and possible
relative
> of Mike, the Hon. Pat Danner from Missouri stated in her
closing
> remarks, "And I would be remiss in not mentioning that one of
the
> reasons Lewis and Clark were so sucessful in finally
navigating
> the river was because they had Sagajawea with them."
>
> Jack