Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] huge but forgotten ghost clave rediscovered 1732gb2sc1763<br/>
Date: Mar 21, 2005 @ 17:25<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-270847738">Good job! Thanks.<br/>
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I agree that no one likely performed such an 18th-century sawanobori.  It&#39;s just <br/>
an academic question for our enjoyment today and to make the South Carolina <br/>
exclave mapable.  You&#39;ve narrowed it closely enough.<br/>
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Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> ----- Original Message ----- <br/>
From: &quot;aletheia kallos&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:aletheiak@...">aletheiak@...</a>&gt;<br/>
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:46 AM<br/>
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] huge but forgotten ghost clave rediscovered <br/>
1732gb2sc1763<br/>
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&gt;<br/>
&gt; sharp shooting lowell<br/>
&gt; & an exquisitely beautiful question<br/>
&gt; about which however i cant be too brief<br/>
&gt; since<br/>
&gt; as you see<br/>
&gt; my use of the terms southernmost source etc<br/>
&gt; was indeed a telescoping of the data you add here<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & my tale there was already so long & complicated even<br/>
&gt; without this technically necessary clarification<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & it is in fact impossible to answer with certainty<br/>
&gt; where the<br/>
&gt; head of the altamaha river really lies<br/>
&gt; or lay in 1732<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & happily i dont think it matters what the writers<br/>
&gt; geographic knowledge nor the intent of their wording<br/>
&gt; actually was since a sawanabori of the altamaha does i<br/>
&gt; think fairly obviously proceed up the ocmulgee rather<br/>
&gt; than the oconee<br/>
&gt; & then farther up i think it also prefers what is so<br/>
&gt; poignantly called the south river over the alcovy<br/>
&gt; river<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; so it has already kept left at 2 major forks<br/>
&gt; whether consciously trying to bear south or not<br/>
&gt; & is then soon in the burbs & i believe finally within<br/>
&gt; the city limits of atlanta itself<br/>
&gt; while still on south river or one of its most<br/>
&gt; promising feeder creeks<br/>
&gt; at latitude<br/>
&gt; 33deg 43min 12sec<br/>
&gt; best i can tell from here<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & of course georgia would have wanted to keep bearing<br/>
&gt; left as much as possible so as to keep the latitude as<br/>
&gt; low as possible & her territory as large as possible<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; so allowing for a little extra intention to that<br/>
&gt; effect<br/>
&gt; i think we could reduce or rather round the guess<br/>
&gt; to an even 33 degrees 43 minutes<br/>
&gt; & not attempt to positively identify the truth head or<br/>
&gt; vertex of altamaha<br/>
&gt; aka the northeast corner of the ghost clave<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; for i dont think anyone really performed this<br/>
&gt; sawanabori or made any such determination between 1732<br/>
&gt; & 1763<br/>
&gt; after which the question became moot<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; until 2000<br/>
&gt; when bp was invented<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; & who knows<br/>
&gt; maybe some day<br/>
&gt; a physical sawanabori of the altamaha yet too </span></blockquote></div>