i believe this is the only one in georgia too
of all the hundreds of mounds he left
& with its confirmation
if only by this remote historical marker
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/ellicotthistmarker.htm
since i have found no pic of the mound itself
even tho it is probably the ultimate & certainly the
easternmost
& perhaps his single most illustrious one
your & our ellicott lams recovery project can now be
properly hailed as a quest for the last major missing
piece of this entire multistate puzzle
--- aletheia kallos <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
> ok we have a hit already on the latter question
> at beautiful flga2bachwa in the okefenokee
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=3382415&e=383520&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
> so having paid our dues & earned our tax deduction
> too
> for discussing business as it were before pleasure
> we can concentrate on the former question
> or on any other question you like
>
> yikes now that i mention it tho
> i even recall advancing to within 1000 yards of this
> baby once
> before ultimately having to blow it off
> as recently as messages 5840 etc
>
> --- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > --- In 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
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Yahoo! Music Unlimited
> Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
> http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
>
__________________________________
Yahoo! Music Unlimited
Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/