oh & getting back to the question of the oldest surviving mound
i am glad it is looking like you will have easy access to the flood plain
where all these hottest prospects are concentrated
tho i am still scratching my head over the idea of any of them surviving 2 centuries of
flooding there
& also over the idea of anyone constructing a mound on the steep valley wall at point d
& also over the idea of any of mounds 1 thru 5 matching up with any section corner
so
my latest revised guess is
the oldest easily recoverable mound may be number 6
or the westernmost range corner mound
if indeed it is that
tho i expect you will find something at point d
just maybe not necessarily a fully manifested mound there
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> lowell
>
> > >> > who knows
> > >> > we may even get another multipoint out of such a
> > >> nice
> > >> > convergency
> > >>
> > >> We might, indeed! If there is conjunction between
> > >> Ellicott and the public land
> > >> survey, the only candidates for tripoints upon
> > >> Ellicott mounds would be the
> > >> intersections of Mississippi county lines with LAMS.
> > >> This is explained in the
> > >> next insertion.
> > >
> > > i understand
> > > & anticipated or followed your entire explanation
> > > without surprise or even a hiccup
> > > except i dont see why the intersections or junctions
> > > of county lines with the ellicott line aka public land
> > > baseline eastward of lams are not also tripoint
> > > candidates
> > > in mississippi at least
> > > if not alabama too
> > > tho i do understand why not louisiana or florida
> > >
> > > if you had said & or mean
> > > the only candidates for tripoints upon ellicott mounds
> > > on the lams line would be the junctions of mississippi
> > > county lines with the lams line
> > > i would have understood & agreed immediately
> >
> >
> > I referred only to LAMS and should have said so. I had not studied the line
> > east of the Pearl River enough to have an opinion. Of course, that part of
> > Mississippi east of the Pearl is within the purview of the St. Stephens
> > Meridian. I have just examined the point where Ellicott's line crosses the
> > Pearl on TerraServer at http://tinyurl.com/by92a . The survey east of the Pearl
> > seems to be profoundly unorthodox! The sections north of the St. Stephens Base
> > Line have only a bit more than half of the north-south extent that they should!
> > I can't explain why. Who knows whether or not their lines' junctions with the
> > base line are intended to be at precise one-mile intervals?
>
> well i certainly dont know yet either
> but since i am most intrigued by the possibilities of ellicott mound multipoints
> i have projected your range corner guesses in the washington meridian so as to include
> along with ellicotts point d and mound 24
> every 6th mound thru the 102nd inclusive
> thus producing 17 additional hot range corner prospects to add to your leading 2
>
> & you probably already anticipated these too
>
> but among them
> at mound 30 & 60 & 102 are the hottest 3 county&parish tripoint prospects
> namely
> ameawi or amity east feliciana wilkinson
> ampita or amity pike tangipahoa
> & mawawa or marion walthall washington
> respectively
>
>
> obviously less promising than the range corners but still possible are a few of the
cleaner
> looking section corners
> such as those corresponding to mounds 29 & 43 etc
> which perhaps look close enough to invite a look too
>
> but of these
> mound 77 offers a most plausible example of all
> & a 4th county&parish tripoint prospect
> namely
> piwawa or pike walthall washington
>
>
> on the saint stephens or all mississippi side of the pearl
> it seems similarly likely that the westward projection of ranges from the ellicott rock has
> produced tricounty point mounds
> at both lamape or lamar marion pearl river
> & falape or forrest lamar pearl river
> as well as some bilateral county line mound prospects at various range & section
corners
> etc
>
>
> but the huge break at the mobile river
> in both the mound & public land survey sequences
> throws any such hoped for harmonic convergences east of there into much greater
doubt
>
> even so
> i will want to examine 1 alfl prospect in particular
> on the way to mardi gras
> at cogewa or covington geneva walton
>
> but not the 2 other alfl prospects
>
> which i can already confirm are probably busts
>
> so thats a full octave of hot ellicott mound tripoint prospects
> to add to bachwa in the okefenokee
> which i will also try again
> on the way to the keys in january
> if they are still there
>