Subject: canaan ct<br/>
Date: Aug 22, 2005 @ 22:04<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div>for reasons too complicated &amp;&nbsp;irrelevant to mention</div>
<div>my triumphal&nbsp;return from blue hill to cream hill has now been delayed til at least saturday</div>
<div>so i must report that the already overdue illustrated accounts of&nbsp;my still somewhat&nbsp;fresh</div>
<div>oldest working rock in america</div>
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<div>great menh turnpoint</div>
<div>findings</div>
<div>will accordingly be&nbsp;delayed still further</div>
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<div>but frankly there is now serious doubt anyway whether either of these topics will ever prove to have contained any&nbsp;multipointing material whatsoever</div>
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<div>indeed a close rereading of the bus&amp;ss bible has satisfied me that its mention of a coincident&nbsp;meeting of 2 named towns at the turnpoint refers to towns in different states</div>
<div>&amp; thus doesnt actually suggest the presence of a tripoint</div>
<div>as i had previously supposed it might</div>
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<div>&amp; i also have to remind myself that the sole source of the rumor that bound rock marks a ghost tripoint&nbsp;is also the sole source of the rumor that&nbsp;bound rock&nbsp;is the second oldest boundary marker in america</div>
<div>which i believe i may already have substantially busted into a younger heape of stones</div>
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<div>so the claim or supposition&nbsp;that&nbsp;bound rock&nbsp;is also a ghost tripoint marker may be on very shaky ground indeed if the full testimony of this doubtful witness must be discounted</div>
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<div>hence very possibly zero multipoints in these entire discussions &amp; in this entire outing</div>
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<div>&amp; yet </div>
<div>i find both of these quests have big hearts</div>
<div>so i trust you will indulge my continuing pursuit of them here</div>
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<div>at the same time you may be wondering with me</div>
<div>should we deliberately allow ourselves to compromise our stated focus</div>
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<div>&amp; i dont know if we should</div>
<div>especially now that what is left of our bp constitution is being taken a bit more earnestly than ever before</div>
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<div>but what do&nbsp;you think about that</div>
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<div>in any case &amp; in the meantime</div>
<div>the most intriguing &amp; striking thing about these topics is that they both seem to involve a rock in the middle of a water&nbsp;outlet</div>
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<div>bound rock you may recall was originally in the middle of the mouth of the hampton river</div>
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<div>&amp; the menh turnpoint also evidently has a corresponding rock associated with it</div>
<div>in this case in the middle of the mouth of east pond aka great east lake</div>
<div>which is the geographical source of the piscataqua mainstream </div>
<div>aka salmon falls river</div>
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<div>this rock is named bryant rock &amp; dates from 1740 per bus&amp;ss</div>
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<div>&amp; i believe i have also found this one</div>
<div>very near the modern menh turnpoint</div>
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<div>pix to come</div>
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<div>&amp; it is a practically identical&nbsp;case of a water outlet displacing over time</div>
<div>except bryant rock&nbsp;is today actually off its original working point</div>
<div>as i may eventually be able to explain</div>
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<div>but for starters let me say that i was very struck by the fact that my guess at bryant rock</div>
<div>not only&nbsp;had all the right dimensions provided for it in bus&amp;ss</div>
<div>but was actually situated directly on the menh line established by the diagram shown on the top of the turnpoint witness marker&nbsp;</div>
<div>aka 1927 menh marker number 1</div>
<div>aha</div>
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<div>&amp; this suggests to me that tho the head of the salmon falls river must have moved by accretion several rods westward from my presumptive bryant rock between 1740 &amp; 1927</div>
<div>the intervening 1927 marker was at least faithful to the original upper&nbsp;menh alignment</div>
<div>which it hyperextended practically up to the present outlet of the lake</div>
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<div>&amp; i do wonder by what authority or principle the 1927 surveyors commissioners&nbsp;closed this little stitch between the extant upper menh sector &amp; the fugitive lower menh sector</div>
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<div>here btw&nbsp;is the topo </div>
<div>hopefully</div>
<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&amp;n=4825974&amp;e=340691&amp;s=24&amp;size=l&amp;datum=nad83&amp;layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&amp;n=4825974&amp;e=340691&amp;s=24&amp;size=l&amp;datum=nad83&amp;layer=DRG25</a></div>
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<div>note the small tongue of nh sticking out into the lake from maine</div>
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<div>marker number 1 &amp;&nbsp;my bryant rock guess&nbsp;are at opposite ends of this tongue</div>
<div>more or less&nbsp;</div>
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<div>much else to mull on &amp; report here</div>
<div>but running out of time for now</div>
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<div>beeps</div>
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