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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:47
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Subject: [BoundaryPoint] arcapora is
ours
that armstrong carson potter randall quadricounty point virgin
beauty
& prima donna megapoint of the texas tertiary
was successfully visited earlier today class a
thanx substantially to our strong silent & uncannily trusty local
informant tex mcmanus
heralded by & visible from the capo county line signs on
federal highway 287
it is monumented by a somewhat battered &
misshapen 3foot reinforced concrete pyramoid with a footsquare
horizontal top in lieu of cap
the overall form is much like a bradstreet 1924 model as
recently described for az3mayu
but with a copper disk embedded in its top
on the disk are engraved the names of the 4
counties in positions suggesting the 4 quadrants
but the precise 4corner point location in their midst is not
actually marked
& has to be inferred geometrically
which can be done with confidence actually only down to about the correct
square semicentimeter
but an index finger tip covers & fudges all that just
fine
date guess 1927
the usual barbed wire crawl
plus an open ballpark or so to run in view of a ranch
house
& remember we are in texas now
so even any slight tresspass is likely to be taken very
seriously indeed
of course heightening the fun of the chase
& the cold turkey approach was so satisfying that i
have decided to try to complete the entire 5pointed
star tour cold turkey if possible before resorting to any further
mappery
this may border on the footloose & fancy free however
since the next 2 points i will be trying at least
namely crflhalu & crgaluly
are indicated not as monumented points necessarily but
only as triangulation stations
so they could be something else than arcapora entirely & harder
to spot
but we shall see
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