i just realized also that there are some extremely thin but still real
obelisks in many places along the caus & mxus lines

& http://ksphototour.8m.com/meridian.htm may save you a trip to the scanner
jack for the quintiobelisk
tho a better pic of the novel quintipyramid at the top of this monument if
you have one would still be a real thrill to see

m

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>well thanx for running down that obelisk peter
>& i do apologize for the horrendously bad query
>
>it was the resemblance between hoogstift & stifter that got me in dutch &
>czech here simultaneously
>
>seriously glad to learn this is not an olympic contender tho
>since the tallest actual tripoint & boundary obelisk i know of is the
>little one at us2ctmari
>of which a photo is attached below
>
>taller & more distinctive than this one
>tho i have only half a pic of it & am hoping jack can bail me out here with
>a good pic because he just visited there last year
>is the commemorative quintiobelisk that stands a short distance from the
>initial point of the sixth principal meridian of the united states public
>land survey
>
>the actual point it celebrates
>hidden in a crypt beneath a roadway
>is simultaneously also both an interstate & a quadricounty point
>or us2ksne3jerethwa6pm in all i think by name
>
>the obelisk is a quinti because lands of 5 states were surveyed from this
>point of reference
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>m
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