wow that was lucky & it will prolong the fun too
i had a fantastic good time myself today
on the approximately 8th or 10th earnest hapiri try
but must report in brief
in case anyone is in a hurry
that i had scarcely even crossed route 44 when i was compelled to suspend the try
thats right
never even reached berkshire county
hahahaha
the longer version may be entertaining too tho
jc
who has been staying at her parents in millerton
& i
had the rendezvous plan all set for this morning since yesterday
but when i tried to phone her this morning to fully activate it just before leaving cream hill
no one answered
on 2 separate tries
& the answering machine was unfamiliar
etc
later i learned this disconnect was because she got flooded out & was staying down the
road at her brothers instead
& that our whole plan would thus prove to be a nonstarter too
but unawares i continued with the plan anyway
since i had another appointment on the way also
& figured the light was probably still blinking green anyway
& that i could eventually catch up with jc anyway
without even seriously breaking stride
for this still inexplicable mishap
my herbalist in falls village was in rare form
purveying his fine new hybrid of spice & northern light
& he also treated me to a side trip to his favorite kayaking whitewater
called the rattlesnake
just below the great falls of the housatonic there
which were all aroar
& gave me the first intimation that maybe a rafting expedition on a streaming pond might
not be such a great idea in such an awesome freshet
yet i persisted
proceeding next to load up at my bank in salisbury where i first reached route 44
& then to head for jc & the raft & metal detector etc in millerton
thinking how lovely to be making a tristate outing of it
& all the while looking for a phone booth to try to make first contact as well
at mcdonalds in millerton the burritos were ok but the phones were still acting funny
so i proceeded to just go look for jc or her car at her parents or brothers there
no sign of her at either place
tho i noticed the aftermath of the flood without thinking much of it yet
back downtown to millerton
where 2 more phones acted funny
etc etc
& finally i reached jc on my cell & her cell
& she was in freakin pawling
which was all i heard because the connection was so bad
but it told me enough to realize at last that we had a nonstarter at high noon
for a hapiri try that had been promised for & earnestly pursued since daybreak
hahahahaha
& after a little reflection i realized it was probably a very good thing that we had been so
cosmically prevented from getting ourselves into trouble rafting just then
directly above a dam
etc
& also a good thing that the next opportunity wont come until perhaps much later in the
week now
when the pond should be streaming much less & the multidimensional green blinker
let us hope
may be more propitiously attuned
but the extraordinary degree of cosmic retardation that has already occurred suggests we
may already have successfully accessed & activated all the blinking green lights
on all the levels & in all the theaters concerned
if not in all creation
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
wrote:
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> I read somewhere during the past week that Ellicott's original mounds were 15
> feet square, three feet high, and had a charred wooden post in the center.
>
> There was also a 1980 reprint of Ellicott's journal by Arno Books.
>
> Two libraries within easy driving distance of where I sit have Ellicott's
> journal. Northwestern State University and Louisiana State University at
> Alexandria have what is shown in their on-line catalogs as the 1803 edition,
> while the former also has the 1962 Quadrangle Books reprint.
>
> I will endeavor to visit one or the other this week and report back.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:16 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: ellicott mound prospects in louisiana
>
>
> > lowell
> > i just realized from a discussion found a bit more than halfway down this page
> > http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/2003_07_20_robertoreg_archive.html
> > that the ellicott mounds on alfl are in fact larger & easier to find than
> > anywhere else
> > because the 1853 retracement of alfl by whitmer mentioned in bus&ss actually
> > enlarged &
> > reshaped them all into cardinal crosses
> > like the one i found & described in the field report linked below
> >
> > this may partly explain why there are no known recoveries of ellicott mounds
> > yet on lams
> > notwithstanding the several on alfl
> > & it suggests that your quest for one on lams may actually be more difficult
> > than it would
> > have been on alfl
> >
> > so it might be a good idea to find a copy of ellicotts 1814 journal
> > as partially cited in the bus&ss bibligraphy
> > which includes fairly detailed maps of all the mound locations
> > as may its 1962 reprint also
> >
> > full citation is here at bottom
> > http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/people/rickey/dms/DeptHeads/Ellicott-mine.html
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> >>
> >> ok fantastic
> >> & please feel entirely free to be the first to bail me out of my predicament
> >>
> >> most of my 17 topozone generated prospects are in the felicianas
> >> but i cant say which are most likely
> >>
> >> i would say they are about as tall as a texan & quite massive if they are
> >> still all there
> >>
> >> there is still a pic of a somewhat eroded one
> >> probably on alfl tho
> >> linked to
> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/8454
> >> & a verbal description of another probably grander one on alfl about a third
> >> of the way
> >> down this field report
> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/9185
> >>
> >> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I don't know of any 1799 Ellicott mounds on LAMS, but I've never been a
> >> > huge
> >> > student of that particular one of my state's boundary segments. If he left
> >> > one
> >> > per mile, surely at least one of the slightly more than 100 should survive.
> >> >
> >> > I'm willing to give this some attention when I get caught up
> >> > post-hurricane.
> >> > Unless you want to reserve the quest for yourself, I'd even be willing to
> >> > undertake an expedition to a few of the most likely of your 17 prospects.
> >> > Just
> >> > how big are these mounds supposed to be, anyway?
> >> >
> >> > Lowell G. McManus
> >> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@y...>
> >> > To: <boundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> >> > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:34 AM
> >> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] ellicott mound prospects in louisiana
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > now that i have shot my mouth off about louisiana
> >> > > still having some 18th century earthen mounds on the
> >> > > lams state line that were once esus international
> >> > > boundary markers
> >> > > to go along with her 1 remaining 19th century latx
> >> > > rock
> >> > > it occurs to me i may well be called upon to
> >> > > substantiate this claim
> >> > >
> >> > > which i cant yet
> >> > >
> >> > > i have visited several & learned of several others of
> >> > > these 1799 ellicott mounds that still mark the alfl
> >> > > state line
> >> > > & yikes i have just recalled another famous one on
> >> > > flga
> >> > > so i must add georgia to the distinguised fraternity
> >> > > of the international border convergency of the the
> >> > > deep south i mentioned to david
> >> > >
> >> > > ga fl al ms la tx
> >> > >
> >> > > but the point is i have no idea if an ellicott mound
> >> > > will ever actually be found on lams
> >> > > hahahaha
> >> > >
> >> > > i have seen ellicotts field notes showing that he left
> >> > > them at roughly 1 mile intervals all the way from the
> >> > > mississippi to the chattahoochee
> >> > >
> >> > > in fact he is known to have begun with that sector &
> >> > > to have proceeded west to east on it
> >> > > so
> >> > > the oldest international boundary marker in america
> >> > > if one wanted to add the distinction of greatest age
> >> > > to such a quest
> >> > > will be the nearest one to ellicotts initial point
> >> > > presumably near modern lams2cowewi on the mississippi
> >> > > aka the concordia west feliciana wilkinson tertiary
> >> > > tripoint
> >> > >
> >> > > & i have found 17 promising elevation locations that
> >> > > are marked squarely on the lams state line by usgs
> >> > > topography
> >> > > the nearest to cowewi being so far happily just out of
> >> > > range of angola
> >> > > but of course any of these 17 prospects that would be
> >> > > so good as to actually pan out would do me just fine
> >> > >
> >> > > the especial delicacy of the situation tho is that the
> >> > > bus&ss bible doesnt even mention that this part of the
> >> > > lams state line was ever retraced & remarked
> >> > > as it states the alfl part of ellicotts mound line was
> >> > > in 1853
> >> > >
> >> > > so for this reason
> >> > > & also in view of the fact that the mound line
> >> > > perfectly coincides with the well marked public land
> >> > > survey base line
> >> > > i expect to find no other lams markers anywhere than
> >> > > just federal corner pins & whatever is left of the
> >> > > original earthen mounds
> >> > > if anything
> >> > >
> >> > > but any harder evidence or leads than just these
> >> > > inchoate gropings of mine would be much appreciated in
> >> > > the meantime