Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: atchit wasnt chfrit -> Lost cairn?
Date: Mar 02, 2004 @ 22:23
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@yahoo.com>)
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> good catch & i am glad you asked__________________________________
> as it is evidently lost in more ways than i thought
> hahaha
> but cdcfsd is what i shouldve said
> as in kinshasa caf sudan
>
> i remember scanning it up from an old boundary tome
> perhaps a boggs or prescott etc but i dont recall
> who or which
> & i posted it more than once as a message attachment
>
> or expired link
> or whatever
> but it was finally obliterated
> from our archive at least
> in the latest yahoo tsunami
> along with perhaps several others i am still trying
> to recall
>
> but anyway
> as you will probably recall
> this monumental marker is just a huge cairn of
> boulders
> & i believe there was a comical perhaps belgian
> colonial soldier
> standing in front of it too for a sense of
> proportion
>
> certainly the grandest tripoint monument i have ever
> seen
>
> but not lately
>
> so if you or anyone could retrieve this the worlds
> putatively
> greatest tricountry point
> from their library or from anywhere
> or any other lost tripoints for that matter
> it might be quite a treat at this point
> especially as we are deliberately rounding
> everything up for
> jespers definitive collection
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> Smaardijk"
> <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com,
> "acroorca2002"
> <orc@o...> wrote:
> > > even without discounting the lost jumbo cairn of
> cdcgsd
> >
> > Congo (Brazzaville) - Congo (Kinshasa) - Sudan? I
> don't think
> there
> > is such a tripoint...
> >
> > What cairn do you mean then, and why is/was it
> lost?
> >
> > Peter S.
>
>