By the same token, the tripoint could have
moved...maybe the cartogrophers just didn't know about
it. The AMAZGE tripoint could have moved (or even
ceased to exist!) - it's just that it wasn't shown or
said, "if something isnt shown or said it only means
it wasnt shown or said not that it was or wasnt a
fact."

--- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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