Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] questions aroused by brownlie<br/>
Date: Sep 25, 2003 @ 23:19<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1826281211">In POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (Second Edition) by Norman J. G. Pounds (New York:<br/>
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972), which was one of my graduate school textbooks,<br/>
says on page 88:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; It was decided in 1920 that in navigable rivers the<br/>
&gt; boundary should follow the &quot;principal channel&quot;<br/>
&gt; (thalweg) and in other cases the median line.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Unfortunately, Dr. Pounds does not say by whom it was so decided.<br/>
<br/>
I can&#39;t cite a source, but it is my distinct impression that a stream is<br/>
officially considered navigable if there is any historic evidence of civilized<br/>
river-borne commerce upon it.  Since the rivers were often the only realistic<br/>
routes into the interior of Africa, I would expect the vast majority of riverine<br/>
boundaries there to be considered navigable.<br/>
<br/>
Of course, the whole thing is moot if the states agree to a boundary of a<br/>
particular description in the stream.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>