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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 12:21 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Four Color Maps
>
>
> > actually the usgs is quite inconsistent about showing the 3 mile
> > limits
> > & also about showing county & state lines in the sea
> >
> > it does close the mouths of chesapeake & delaware & new york &
cape
> > cod bays
> > but not of florida bay
> > despite the notorious shallowness of the latter
>
> Florida Bay is not internal waters (so say the Supremes), so it has
no closing
> line. It is subject only to the acrs of the three-league line from
the mainland
> and the Keys, as depicted nicely at http://tinyurl.com/yd62 .
>
> > it even shows a bit of the 3nm line within the otherwise
undoubtedly
> > internal waters of mississippi in mississippi sound
> > yikes
> > thats right
> > a little enclave of federal waters within mississippi waters
> > hard to believe
>
> The map at http://tinyurl.com/yd7a shows three such federal
enclaves within
> Mississippi waters and one more surrounded by Mississippi and
Alabama waters!
why thank you
& since one good raise deserves another
pan out one more level & you get 4 for the price of 3 or of 1
yes thats 4 exclaves of american federal seas embedded in internal
states waters folks
3 enclaved in mississippi & 1 divided by alms
a division which in itself is of course impossible
since
if these internal federal seas are really federal & really real
alms must be interrupted & parted by them into alus & msus
& yikes
must thus produce a pair of new almsus tripoints
rather than merely being superimposed by these seas as shown
for that much is certainly a blunder
dont you agree
as much as i would like to believe you have just brought home alive
the long overlooked 86th & 87th american federal tripoints here
i just cant go out & ring the liberty bell on them yet
but do you believe your eyes in any of these cases
then why shouldnt you expect the same regime to be applied to say
pamlico sound or long island sound or even puget sound
or any other sound or nonsound
anyway i would love to know the ultimate disposition of this mess
or even just any further steps in that direction
>
> > ...
> > it shows almost none of the 3 mile limit in louisiana
>
> The Official Map of Louisiana 2000 ("Best Map" in 2001 Avenza-
MAPublisher Map
> Competition) does show the state's entire seaward boundary,
marked "State
> Waters" and "Federal Waters" on its two sides.
nice map
no holes in chandeleur sound i see
The boundary is visible on a
> low-resolution version at
> http://www.avenza.com/MPcomp/2001/maps/GenPurp_Snead.jpg .
>
> > ...
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA