yikes its another natch
for 3 in a row
natch
i multi touches
so keep us abreast of your touches
also
the following may not be an easy question to answer
but it strikes me as a great one to ask at this point
& you may already be hinting at pursuing it anyway
can any of ellicotts mound location descriptions be hypothetically linked to any of the 17
usgs topo elevation points already noticed on lams
& for extra fun credit
as well as probably even harder to answer
yet just so we remain hypothetically on topic too
can any of them be hypothetically linked to any known multipoint
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
wrote:
>
> I went to Natchitoches today to access Ellicott's journal in the Watson Library
> at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. NSU does indeed have two copies,
> one of the original 1803 edition and one of the 1962 reprint.
>
> The 1803 version is a large chunk of a book, about three inches thick with many
> fold-out maps scattered through it. I handled and read it with awe! The book
> had once been part of the private library of the lady after whom the special
> research collections room is named. It had prices of $1 and $10 written in
> brown ink inside its covers. (Didn't we see one a couple of days ago that was
> selling on the web for $4,000?) When it came to making photocopies of a few of
> the maps, I switched to the reprint, not wanting to subject the ancient edition
> to that kind of handling. The reprint has the maps reproduced smaller on
> regular book pages, all of them in the back, but an enlarging copy machine
> produced useable results.
>
> The book covers Ellicott's dealings with the Spanish, reproduces his official
> letters, and details his techniques. He gives us his astronomical observations
> and mathematical calculations, tells us the temperatures each day, and recounts
> every time he wound or cleaned his clock. Unfortunately for our purposes, he
> leaves most of the details of his product, the line itself, to his field notes.
> The strip maps of the line, though, do show each numbered mile and many of the
> stream courses that cross it, a few of them named. With some study, I should be
> able to correlate with modern maps to determine sites worthy of inspection.
>
> I will keep the group informed as such study evolves.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>