Subject: sawanabori of the thames continued<br/>
Date: May 29, 2004 @ 03:45<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-893354842">so proceeding from message 14204<br/>
& despite the difficulty of the visual evaluation<br/>
we probably guessed correctly at norwich that the west fork or yantic river <br/>
is the tributary<br/>
& the east fork or shetucket river is the mainstream or true upper thames<br/>
insofar as this watershed schematic<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mywatershed.com/all/sne/tha/qui12.htm">http://www.mywatershed.com/all/sne/tha/qui12.htm</a><br/>
clearly shows how much larger an area the east fork drains than the west<br/>
<br/>
the confluence at norwich btw is marked by the first red line tripoint above <br/>
new london<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
only a few miles up the shetucket the quinebaug river comes in from the east <br/>
opposite taft station<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.55528&lon=-72.05111">http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.55528&lon=-72.05111</a><br/>
<br/>
visually it might be easy enough to be misled here<br/>
both by the relative widths of the stream beds & their relative <br/>
directionalities<br/>
<br/>
but on my first pass up the shetucket i was using my regular defective <br/>
delorme atlas<br/>
which actually misrepresented the lower shetucket as the quinebaug<br/>
<br/>
so comically i was misled both by the map & by the world itself to aberrate <br/>
straight up the quinebaug<br/>
where i might have proceeded bissfully ever after in my ignorance of being <br/>
wrong<br/>
had i not subsequently become exceedingly confused & lost as well<br/>
in some far massachsetts headwaters of this branch<br/>
<br/>
which was coincidentally exactly why & when & where i first began to call <br/>
out to you all for your help<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& then once i showed you & saw with my own eyes the usgs topos correctly <br/>
identifying the shetucket<br/>
& the watershed map also indicating the upper shetucket beats the quinebaug <br/>
by areal comparison<br/>
i turned back up the shetucket & never slowed down til i reached its head at <br/>
willimantic<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.711&lon=-72.19">http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.711&lon=-72.19</a><br/>
for here there is another difficult choice between the westbound left fork <br/>
aka willimantic river & the northbound right fork aka natchaug river<br/>
<br/>
this confluence at willimantic btw is marked on the watershed map by the red <br/>
line tripoint northwest of the norwich tripoint previously identified<br/>
<br/>
& it seems that both a visual comparison of the confluence & areal <br/>
comparison of the watersheds are inconclusive in this case<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so here i will pause again both because i am again genuinely puzzled as to <br/>
the correct continuation & also to give anyone another chance to catch up <br/>
&or leapfrog ahead<br/>
<br/>
& i know at least jack has already rescued me once before here on a <br/>
sawanabori of the shenandoah<br/>
so i still believe this may be the right place to get the needed help<br/>
<br/>
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