Beautifully done, Hugh! We thought there might be two
mojones, and here you have brought us a third! Nice to
see they have no sense of direction too! But did you
not try to reach the real mojon also, as shown on
Peter's officially authoritative treasure map??? Or
are you still in close enough range to double back for
this coup de grace?
Jimmy

--- Hugh Wallis <hugh@...> wrote:

> Hello Peter and Jimmy
>
> I have visited this tripoint and you can find the
> results of my visit
> documented at http://tinyurl.com/baglc
>
> I have copied this to boundarypoint since I have now
> been reliably informed
> that is the correct place to discuss tripointing and
> I don't want to step on
> people's toes, being new and all :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Hugh
>
>
> _____
>
> From: borderpoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:borderpoint@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of jimvandura
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 11:26 PM
> To: borderpoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [borderpoint] Re: Spanish provincial
> tripoint marker... or not
>
>
> --- In borderpoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...>
> wrote:
> > On the website
>

http://www.albaiges.com/historia/historiatresreyes.htm

>
> > there is a picture of the tripoint of the Spanish
> regions Navarre, La
> > Rioja, and Aragon (provinces Navarre, La Rioja,
> Zaragoza). It should
> > be at the side of the road (the N113 according to
> my Michelin road
> > map), and that road can be seen in the pictures.
> Convincing so far.
> >
> > But on the map sites of Navarre (
> http://sitna.tracasa.es/ ) and La
> > Rioja (direct access to relevant map at
> >
>

http://www.larioja.org/sig/imagenes/5000/25tp2927.gif

> ) the "mojón de
> > los tres reyes" is not at this roadside, but at
> the other side of the
> > railway, to the northwest of the location at the
> road.
> >
> > Maybe there are two markers: the "correct" one,
> and the one on the
> > roadside. The one in the pictures very much
> resembles other such
> > roadside markers in Spain, which I suspect mark
> the border of the
> > provincial road network authorities more
> accurately than that they
> > mark the provincial territories themselves.
> >
> > Does somebody have any thoughts on this?
> >
> > Peter
>
> Hi! Jimmy Van Dura, class of '75, at your service,
> having just joined both
> your fascinating
> point lists. And I was a little confused how this
> subject qualified as an
> international
> boundary topic rather than a tripoint topic. But I
> think you got it exactly
> right in the end,
> Peter, and that the pictures are not really "of the
> tripoint," as they were
> said to be.
> It is amazing how much false information there
> is on the web, but also
> how misleading
> the written word can be -- wherever it is found. For
> example, seeing
> Zaragoza written on
> the sunny side on this triangular "Welcome To ..."
> or "Entering ..." sign, a
> reader might
> expect to find more than just the scant hectare of
> Zaragoza that remains
> between the
> roadway and the real mojon some few meters to its
> north! For in fact the
> vast majority of
> Zaragoza lies exactly in the opposite direction!
> But is there someone in the neighborhood who
> might be able to check and
> follow your
> detailed map to perhaps find the real border marker
> sitting on the true
> tripoint? ...or the
> true tripoint sitting on the real border marker?
>
> Best,
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
> YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
>
>
>
> * Visit your group "borderpoint
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/borderpoint> " on the
> web.
>
>
> * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> borderpoint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>

<mailto:borderpoint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe>

>
>
>
> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the
> Yahoo! Terms of Service
> <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
>
>
> _____
>
>
>

__________________________________
Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005
http://mail.yahoo.com