Subject: Re: questions aroused by brownlie<br/>
Date: Sep 25, 2003 @ 23:44<br/>
Author: m06079 (&quot;m06079&quot; &lt;barbaria_longa@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1917718543">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;<br/>
mcmanus71496@m...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; In POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (Second Edition) by Norman J. G. Pounds (New York:<br/>
&gt; McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972), which was one of my graduate school textbooks,<br/>
&gt; says on page 88:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; It was decided in 1920 that in navigable rivers the<br/>
&gt; &gt; boundary should follow the &quot;principal channel&quot;<br/>
&gt; &gt; (thalweg) and in other cases the median line.&quot;<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Unfortunately, Dr. Pounds does not say by whom it was so decided.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>hahahahahah<br/>
hahaha<br/>
<br/>
& i completely understand & agree with & thank you for this & all these <br/>
comments<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
any idea why only civilized <br/>
& why only commerce<br/>
<br/>
how about navigation for noncommericial economic activity<br/>
<br/>
or how about rural or savage trade or service<br/>
<br/>
& what do you suppose is the minimum standard of commercial activity<br/>
<br/>
would a single individual trader or fisherman in a canoe qualify<br/>
<br/>
how about a pleasure cruise<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; I can&#39;t cite a source, but it is my distinct impression that a stream is<br/>
&gt; officially considered navigable if there is any historic evidence of civilized<br/>
&gt; river-borne commerce upon it.  Since the rivers were often the only realistic<br/>
&gt; routes into the interior of Africa, I would expect the vast majority of riverine<br/>
&gt; boundaries there to be considered navigable.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Of course, the whole thing is moot if the states agree to a boundary of a<br/>
&gt; particular description in the stream.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Lowell G. McManus<br/>
&gt; Leesville, Louisiana, USA </span></blockquote></div>