Earlier today, the URL came up empty, even when properly pasted together. Now,
however, it's working for me. Here's a TinyURL for it:
http://tinyurl.com/4d3xu .
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kaufman" <mikekaufman79@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] the southernmost point of west virginia aka wvs
tried today
>
> This jpg is not working for me. Maybe it is my
> internet? But things seem two be working fine except
> for two links - this one and the last one I sent
> about.
>
> --- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4117447&e=439800&datum=nad83
> >
> > it didnt require a multipoint nor even a living
> > clave or dead wall of
> > any kind to get me out exploring this fantastically
> > multicolored
> > neighborhood this morning
> > while admittedly not wanting to stray too far from
> > my pub of choice
> > for this evening
> >
> > so i set my sights on the nearby but humble & simple
> > extreme point wvs
> > which just happens to be more easily reached from
> > out of state anyway
> >
> > for it is back of beyond & over the top in west
> > virginia
> > while a paved county road leads right up to it from
> > here in virginia
> >
> >
> > i was earnestly & somewhat excitedly expecting at
> > least something
> > even if not on the order of the 4foot standing rock
> > that marks the
> > thematically & functionally comparable southernmost
> > point of eastern
> > west virginia wves
> >
> > but in the event found nothing
> > & could only feel the pavement end with my toes
> > under piles of fresh leaves
> > just before the road fork
> > as depicted
> > which is evidently entirely in west virginia
> > or is at least entirely unpaved
> >
> >
> > tho it seems clear enough that the geodetic sector
> > of vawv converging
> > from the east must end near here
> > & equally clear that a road center line sector is
> > also converging
> > from the northwest
> > there is depicted on the usgs topo a suspiciously
> > nondescript looking
> > jughandle shaped stitch connecting these 2 sectors
> >
> > admittedly
> > some stitch is needed to connect them since they
> > appear to not quite
> > meet up of their own accord
> >
> > but it is evidently the southernmost point of this
> > anomalous stitch
> > rather than of both convergents that actually
> > determines the true wvs
> > point
> > yikes
> > or at least thats how the topo makes it look
> >
> > for none of this can be read on the ground
> >
> > & perhaps
> > once again
> > the truth will only be found in some verbal
> > description somewhere
> >
> > http://www.encore-
> >
> editions.com/artists/american4/thm_josephhenrysharpautumninwestvirgini
> > a194130x36.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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