--- "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...> wrote:

> I have just now received from BP this Wednesday
> night this message that I posted
> Tuesday afternoon. Of course, we HAVE heard from
> Mr. Schenck by now, etc., but
> please read my original proposition of the bizarre
> compound curve projection
> theory, which I admit is far-fetched, but I can't
> think of anything better.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: possible
> explanation for undermeasurement of
> 12mile arc
>
>
> >
> > Still no word from Mr. Schenck.
> >
> > Whatever the reason is for the under-measurement
> of this particular arc of the
> > twelve-mile circle, it seems purposeful. We just
> don't yet know the purpose.
> >
> > The Supremes consistently uphold Delaware's right
> to:
> >
> > ...the 12-mile circle (that is, within the
> circle the radius of
> > which is 12 miles, and the center of which is
> the building
> > used prior to 1881 as the courthouse at New
> Castle...
> >
> > However when they arrive at a description of that
> short and detached part of
> > the
> > circle's lower crossing of the left half of the
> Delaware River, they give us
> > "the arc of a circle, the radius of which is
> 18,216.16 meters or 59,764.2
> > feet."
> > This is a very precise measurement, but it is off
> by more than two-thirds of a
> > mile!
> >
> > The elusive explanation for this purposeful
> under-measurement should be found
> > in
> > the report of the Special Master appointed by the
> Supremes in 1930. Once
> > again,
> > we are foiled by lack of on-line access to the
> reports of Special Masters in
> > these state boundary cases.
> >
> > I want to propose one possibility, upon which I
> would stake nothing:

good
please see below

> > The badly under-measured arc was the SECOND
> previously unsurveyed arc of DENJ
> > in
> > the Court's 1935 decree. The first was "the
> extension southeastward of the
> > eastern arc of the compound curve of the boundary
> between Delaware and
> > Pennsylvania" (specified as surveyed by Hodgkins
> of the USC&GS in 1893) from
> > DENJPA in the middle of the Delaware River to the
> mean low-water line on the
> > left bank. While the Special Master was
> projecting Hodgkins's "compound
> > curve"
> > beyond DENJPA, he might have mathematically
> projected its last demarcated
> > segment on around to the lower crossing of the
> river many miles away. Any
> > inherent irregularity in Hodgkins's curve might
> have been compounded by
> > distance
> > to result in the significant under-measurement.
> While this hardly seems fair
> > to
> > Delaware, it might have been put forward on the
> grounds that Delaware had
> > accepted Hodgkins's demarcation.
> >
> > I realize that this is far-fetched.

yes indeed literally far fetched

& it would require a new original blunder in the 1893
demarcation
to be compounded by this new subsequent idiocy

for given that date & tech level
no matter how unnaturally warped & how unusually short
this easternmost demarcated segment of the depa arc
may have been
such a crazy projection of it as you are envisioning
would have had to lurch or displace eccentrically a
full mile & a half
or one eighth the radius of the entire circle
thus making it the farthest fetch of all in this whole
family of far fetched arcs

> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA

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