Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: questions aroused by brownlie<br/>
Date: Sep 26, 2003 @ 03:05<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-823972169">Mike wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; any idea why only civilized<br/>
&gt; & why only commerce<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; how about navigation for noncommericial economic activity<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; or how about rural or savage trade or service<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & what do you suppose is the minimum standard of commercial activity<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; would a single individual trader or fisherman in a canoe qualify<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; how about a pleasure cruise<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I didn&#39;t make the rules.  Apparently they were made by &quot;civilized&quot; Europeans who<br/>
wouldn&#39;t have considered native &quot;savages&quot; in a canoe anything more than what had<br/>
gone on for millennia.  Such natives had little use for clearly demarcated<br/>
boundaries; and, to them, a river valley was an economic whole that they would<br/>
never have thought of dividing.  So, the whole concept of river boundaries was<br/>
an alien concoction from the outset.<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;m probably codifying the obvious ...<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>