Subject: an extreme lapse of trypointing technique & other reflections<br/>
Date: Aug 23, 2005 @ 15:55<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1132699893"><div>tho i realized full well&nbsp;</div>
<div>even while&nbsp;still present in&nbsp;the menh turnpoint vicinity on saturday</div>
<div>that there were sufficient indications in the bible for me to test whether my guessed version of bryants 1740 rock was correct</div>
<div>using only the simple protractor &amp; tape measure i had on board</div>
<div>nevertheless i was evidently so distracted at the time as to neglect them all entirely</div>
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<div>&amp; why so you may ask</div>
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<div>i guess it was because there was no actual tripointing involved</div>
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<div>but now that i am several hundred miles away cooling my heels in the greater ctmany area</div>
<div>i laugh to reread the following data from the report of the 1827 menh&nbsp;commission on page 59 of bus&amp;ss 1976 edition</div>
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<div>we commenced at the bryant rock</div>
<div>known as such by tradition</div>
<div>which is a rock in the middle of salmon falls river at the outlet of eastpond</div>
<div>about 6 feet by 3 by 3</div>
<div>&amp; 2 feet under the surface of the water etc</div>
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<div>said stone bears s71w 3 rods &amp; 8 links from a large rock on the eastern bank marked 1827</div>
<div>&amp; bears also n19d30w 12 rods &amp; 21 links from a rock near the mill dam marked h </div>
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<div>so i coulda shoulda &amp; woulda followed these instructions to&nbsp;find these 2 extra marked rocks</div>
<div>&amp; can now scarcely wait til my next return visit to do so</div>
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<div>&amp; how silly of me to have missed this clear opportunity for more fun the first time</div>
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<div>it also remains to check out the legal authorizations &amp; field notes of the 1927 survey</div>
<div>to learn if there was any basis for the extra stitch &amp; extra marker inserted at that time between bryants rock &amp; the present middle of the considerably displaced salmon falls river</div>
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<div>also it is noteworthy for a sawanabori enthusiast&nbsp;that the present head of the river</div>
<div>or&nbsp;outlet of the lake</div>
<div>to the extent that it is distinguishable as the definite beginning of a definite channel</div>
<div>is now situated&nbsp;a&nbsp;considerable distance&nbsp;above the&nbsp;turnpoint&nbsp;</div>
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<div>but it is also perhaps worth remembering that a true sawanabori of the piscataqua would not have been content to stop at either of these historic source points for use as turnpoints </div>
<div>but would have pressed onward &amp; upward&nbsp;to the headspring of&nbsp;the most major feeder stream of great east lake</div>
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<div>finally</div>
<div>in addition to the stylistic similarity as previously noted</div>
<div>another nice connection between bryants rock &amp; bound rock is that when the first menh commission met in 1737 to fix the boundary that was ultimately to turn at bryants rock</div>
<div>it did so at hampton nh</div>
<div>where bound rock is located</div>
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<div>in fact the 2 rocks are situated only 83 years &amp; half as many miles apart</div>
<div>so they practically have a cultural affinity</div>
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<div>&amp; no other former or present midstream working rocks in the&nbsp;whole world come to mind</div>
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<div>oh yes</div>
<div>a reportedly or supposedly underwater one in the rhein </div>
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