Subject: ellicott mound prospects in louisiana<br/>
Date: Oct 03, 2005 @ 16:34<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-544121805">now that i have shot my mouth off about louisiana<br/>
still having some 18th century earthen mounds on the<br/>
lams state line that were once esus international<br/>
boundary markers <br/>
to go along with her 1 remaining 19th century latx<br/>
rock<br/>
it occurs to me i may well be called upon to<br/>
substantiate this claim<br/>
<br/>
which i cant yet<br/>
<br/>
i have visited several & learned of several others of<br/>
these 1799 ellicott mounds that still mark the alfl<br/>
state line<br/>
& yikes i have just recalled another famous one on<br/>
flga<br/>
so i must add georgia to the distinguised fraternity<br/>
of the international border convergency of the the<br/>
deep south i mentioned to david<br/>
<br/>
ga fl al ms la tx<br/>
<br/>
but the point is i have no idea if an ellicott mound<br/>
will ever actually be found on lams<br/>
hahahaha<br/>
<br/>
i have seen ellicotts field notes showing that he left<br/>
them at roughly 1 mile intervals all the way from the<br/>
mississippi to the chattahoochee<br/>
<br/>
in fact he is known to have begun with that sector &<br/>
to have proceeded west to east on it<br/>
so <br/>
the oldest international boundary marker in america<br/>
if one wanted to add the distinction of greatest age<br/>
to such a quest<br/>
will be the nearest one to ellicotts initial point<br/>
presumably near modern lams2cowewi on the mississippi<br/>
aka the concordia west feliciana wilkinson tertiary<br/>
tripoint<br/>
<br/>
& i have found 17 promising elevation locations that<br/>
are marked squarely on the lams state line by usgs<br/>
topography<br/>
the nearest to cowewi being so far happily just out of<br/>
range of angola<br/>
but of course any of these 17 prospects that would be<br/>
so good as to actually pan out would do me just fine<br/>
<br/>
the especial delicacy of the situation tho is that the<br/>
bus&ss bible doesnt even mention that this part of the<br/>
lams state line was ever retraced & remarked <br/>
as it states the alfl part of ellicotts mound line was<br/>
in 1853<br/>
<br/>
so for this reason <br/>
& also in view of the fact that the mound line<br/>
perfectly coincides with the well marked public land<br/>
survey base line<br/>
i expect to find no other lams markers anywhere than<br/>
just federal corner pins & whatever is left of the<br/>
original earthen mounds<br/>
if anything<br/>
<br/>
but any harder evidence or leads than just these<br/>
inchoate gropings of mine would be much appreciated in<br/>
the meantime <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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