yes indeed mats
& craig too
& where there is a stone number 2 there is almost
always a stone number 1 & often even a stone number 0
also
please consider at least carbon copying both of these
reports to our other number & better half
namely
the borderpoint list
since they are both right up its main alley
namely international borders
& i think they could use the tasteful seepage
as it still sometimes goes dry there for days at a
time
--- Ernst Stavro Blofeld <
blofeld_es@...> wrote:
> Thank you for this interesting report from
> one of our most favored areas.
>
> I believe that boundary stone nr 1 at the southwest
> corner of LI is actually on the left bank of the
> Rhine, where it acts as an indirect marker for the
> actual turning point which should be in the thalweg
> of
> the river.
>
> If your Büsingen map shows a wet german passage from
> mainland Germany to Büsingen, I believe that this is
> not entirely correct.
>
> In fact, I think that, although there is a reference
> marker on the south river bank, the actual boundary
> turning point, in the middle of the river as it
> were,
> is marked by a big rock about one meter below the
> surface, with an inscription relating to the fact
> that
> it's actually a boundary marker. I would love to see
> a
> picture of this rock.
>
> Please, if it's not too much trouble for you, do
> share
> all of your pictures!
>
> M
>
>
> --- Craig <trehala@...> wrote:
>
> > Bien di Boundary Point Amitgs ed Amitgas
> >
> > I have just returned from a month-long holiday in
> > Switzerland where
> > I sequestered myself in a Graubünden valley,
> > enrolled in an
> > intensive course in the Romansch language
> (Sursilvan
> > idiom). After
> > the course I had a few days off and I did some
> > boundary hunting of
> > my own.
> >
> > The first trip I took was to the southwestern
> point
> > of
> > Liechtenstein, where its border with Switzerland
> > resembles that of a
> > needle-like point. I had purchased a
> tabletop-sized
> > map of
> > Liechtenstein and was intrigued by this needle
> > appendage that seemed
> > to poke Switzerland like a flu shot. The needle
> > looked no wider than
> > a road, and I endeavoured to find the boundary
> > markers with
> > Switzerland.
> >
> > Sure enough, this part of Liechtenstein was no
> wider
> > than a one-lane
> > road, with the Rhine on one side and the boundary
> > stones on the
> > other. I did find stones numbers 2 and 5, marked
> "L"
> > on one side
> > and "S" on the other, and took photos. I also
> > couldn't resist
> > climbing on top of stone 2 and placing each foot
> on
> > opposite sides
> > of the chiselled red dividing line. (I feel like
> an
> > initiated member
> > of BoundaryPoint now.)
> >
> > I could not find the boundary stone number 1, and
> I
> > even crawled
> > through the forested cliff between the road and
> the
> > river looking
> > for it. Since I had found a stone number 2, did
> that
> > mean (always)
> > that there is a stone number 1? Would that one be
> > nearer the Rhine
> > riverbank (or, in the river itself)?
> >
> > My next excursion was to Büsingen, where I
> followed
> > the western
> > border and part of the northern border with
> > Switzerland. During the
> > entire way I took photos of each and every
> boundary
> > stone marker. I
> > even asked three people what country they lived
> in,
> > since their
> > houses were snug up to the border, or, in one
> case,
> > their property
> > was divided by it. I have photos of an
> > internationally-bisected
> > driveway.
> >
> > I would like to ask the members of this group if
> > Büsingen really
> > qualifies as an enclave (exclave) since it is
> > accessible via the
> > Rhine from the German bit of territory stuck
> between
> > the two parts
> > of Schaffhausen canton. I bought an enormous map
> of
> > Schaffhausen
> > canton and the international border here cuts the
> > Rhine in half. One
> > could go south to the German town of Gailingen,
> get
> > in a boat and
> > paddle westward to Büsingen. If one kept to the
> > north shore of the
> > Rhine the whole time, would one have ever left
> > German territory? Or
> > is this map wrong, and are both sides of the Rhine
> > entirely Swiss
> > territory between the parts of Schaffhausen canton
> > that separate
> > Büsingen from Gailingen?
> >
> > Craig Rowland
> > Mississauga, Ontario
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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