thanx
good idea specifically
& good for the aspiring clavoscopist to be so diligent in any case

but one cant presume the cartographers knew anything other
than what they actually drew or wrote

if something isnt shown or said
it only means it wasnt shown or said
not that it was or wasnt a fact
& not that anyone had any specific inkling about it or even any
general awareness of it

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

> Mike D. asked:
>
> > if the claves were discontinued
> > their borders couldnt & wouldnt have been redrawn but only
> > eliminated or forgotten
> >
> > would the mapmakers have just scrawled a big purple cross
> > over each clave to let us know in that case
> >
> > or exactly how would they redraw something that had

completely

> > vanished
> > short of erasing it
> > which they couldnt do
>
> I the addition of a purple overprint was the only means of

revision available,

> the cartographers would likely have added a text notation in

purple that

> such-and-such claves no longer existed. I suggest that you go

back and check

> the margins and legend of the map for such purple text.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA