thanx
thats much better

& so why would you suppose the cut lines run both ways now

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I've cut out the mounting clutter and re-titled the thread.
>
> You wrote:
>
> > thanx very much for this choice morsel in any case
> > & you can see here that the usgs still doesnt have it right
> > http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=24.66472&lon=-82.85556
> > but draws the line between the 3nm & 9nm regimes
> > on an east west basis rather than the north south line you specify
> > something i had always suspected they had done arbitrarily
> > but couldnt prove until now
>
> Those TopoZone links never work right for me. After 15 minutes of

trying to get

> to something recognizable from the various settings at the linked

URL, I gave up

> and went to TerraServer. There I easily found the big picture on

the Dry

> Tortugas at http://tinyurl.com/y5w2 .
>
> Here you can see that this 1989 map has both east-west and north-

south

> components to the division between the different Gulf and the

Atlantic state

> waters regimes. Admittedly, the source from which I took the

description that I

> gave was rather simplistic. My point and that of the source was

more that the

> Submerged Lands Act did trump the pre-existing state claims in the

Atlantic

> (however defined). I will endeavor to research the actual SCOTUS

decision and

> render a full report.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA