Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Harsens Island MI border story<br/>
Date: Aug 09, 2003 @ 22:02<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-192155404">Mike wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; unlike mxus & most others<br/>
&gt; not a stitch of caus wet or dry has been left to chance<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>That is quite true!  Even the gracefully curving 49th parallel has been reduced<br/>
to straight &quot;line-of-sight&quot; or &quot;great-circle&quot; segments between monuments.  The<br/>
US gained quite a bit of territory in the aggregate when that change was<br/>
enacted.<br/>
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Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>