Subject: toward happier obelisks<br/>
Date: Mar 17, 2001 @ 02:03<br/>
Author: jane capellaro (jane capellaro &lt;j@discovernet.net&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1640862806">well thanx for running down that obelisk  peter<br/>
& i do apologize for the horrendously bad query<br/>
<br/>
it was the resemblance between hoogstift & stifter that got me in dutch & <br/>
czech here simultaneously<br/>
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seriously glad to learn this is not an olympic contender tho<br/>
since the tallest actual tripoint & boundary obelisk i know of is the <br/>
little one at us2ctmari<br/>
of which a photo is attached below<br/>
<br/>
taller & more distinctive than this one<br/>
tho i have only half a pic of it & am hoping jack can bail me out here with <br/>
a good pic because he just visited there last year<br/>
is the commemorative quintiobelisk that stands a short distance from the <br/>
initial point of the sixth principal meridian of the united states public <br/>
land survey<br/>
<br/>
the actual point it celebrates<br/>
hidden in a crypt beneath a roadway<br/>
is simultaneously also both an interstate & a quadricounty point<br/>
or us2ksne3jerethwa6pm in all  i think  by name<br/>
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the obelisk is a quinti because lands of 5 states were surveyed from this <br/>
point of reference<br/>
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m</div>