right you are
thanx

the sudan
a n d
egypt

--- Hugh Wallis <hugh@...> wrote:

> Pictures 1 and 3 show a different side from picture
> 7 - apart from the
> leftmost character, which is the same on both sides,
> the words look to be
> completely different otherwise.
>
> I have asked an arabic friend for a definitive
> reading
>
>
> _____
>
> From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of aletheiak
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:01 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: SV: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
>
>
> most probably just an entering or welcome to sudan
> sort of sign
> since it just says the sudan in arabic on the north
> side
>
> there is no known egds demarcation
>
> & no known south side of this sign i might add
>
>
> funny that it chanced to hit an integral degree &
> border intersection tho
> of which sudan has a good dozen or so
> including eglysd herself
>
> so it is even funnier that none was reported at the
> eglysd intersection
>
> & funniest of all that none of the other dozen
> candidate intersections are
> reported at
> project intersection
> er i mean project confluence
>
>
> but wouldnt it be just too much fun to start a real
> confluence documentation
> project & call
> it project intersection
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper
> Nielsen" <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> >
> > Could this be EGSD demarcation?
> >
> > http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575
> > <http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575
>

<http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575&pic=ALL>

> &pic=ALL>
> &pic=ALL
> >
> >
> >
> > Who reads Arabic? Isn't the left symbol
> five-something?
> >
> >
> >
> > Jesper
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > Fra: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]
> På
> > vegne af aletheiak
> > Sendt: 5. januar 2006 07:56
> > Til: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Emne: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
> >
> >
> >
> > & a very sweet dream indeed as well as a brilliant
> analysis & synthesis
> dear
> > doctor
> > but off the top of my head
> > egsd even in the wadi halfa nile salient was last
> reported totally
> > undemarcated as of 1962
> > per ibs
> > so your valiantly won trilaterality & tridatum
> intersection appears to
> > evaporate in the
> > desert
> >
> > but hardy & steady as she blows matey for we are
> whaling in mirage country
> > here
> >
> > & something seems to be turning up
> >
> > yes
> > per the other ibs
> > egly has its mediterranean border base at a place
> called beacon point
> > no relation
> > & was reportedly marked by beacons 206 miles
> inland from there
> >
> > & this strange note with perhaps a new clue
> >
> > on 15dec1937 a commission met & arranged to move
> some of the boundary
> > pillars
> > westward in order to improve intervisibility & to
> delimit the boundary as
> a
> > series of
> > straight lines between beacons instead of the
> previous line which followed
> > the tracks
> > between the beacons
> > & 9 extra beacons were erected at this time
> bringing the total to 187
> > & this whole chain of permanent beacons was
> reported satisfactorily
> > completed in a proces
> > verbale dated 3may1938
> > which
> > could well tell us or lead us to the egly datum
> > if we ever did find an egsd datum
> > for completing the still elusive intersection &
> triangulation you propose
> >
> > also & stranger
> > a whole fresh chain of border arcs mike kaufman &
> i missed in our crazy
> arc
> > census is
> > built into egly tho not quite nakedly visible in
> here
> >
>

http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/maps/bs61.html

> > but thats just for titillation & profits us
> nothing
> >
> >
> > &
> > aha
> > but here in the lysd ibs your point & synthesis
> are finally made in
> earnest
> > still hypothetically of course but its a warm lead
> > for it indicates
> > 23 or 24 miles south of eglysd
> > lysd appears to be demarcated by 12 boundary
> beacons
> >
> > however no info available on their type or
> condition
> >
> > funny way to put it & unusual circumstance too
> > but it points toward a lost treaty text & in it
> perhaps a lost lysd datum
> > which
> > when combined with our more hopefully found egly
> datum
> > completes your proposed trilateral datum cross
> artifice by the back door
> >
> > of course we still have to track down the one
> ordinary egly & this other
> > mystery lysd treaty
> > but its a way to proceed
> > superchallenging as it may seem
> >
> > but something better to pursue in daylight i would
> think
> >
> > so keep on dreamin
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> McManus" <lgm@w...>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > While the EGLYSD tripoint has almost certainly
> never been surveyed
> > according to
> > > any datum whatsoever, it seems likely that other
> segments of the EGLY
> > meridional
> > > boundary (farther north) and of EGSD (in the
> vicinity of the Nile
> Valley)
> > have
> > > been surveyed and demarcated. Shouldn't the
> same datum that was used in
>

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