Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
Date: Jan 07, 2006 @ 03:58
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> According to my Egyptian neighbour the leftmost most<http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575&pic=ALL>
> symbol is interpreted
> as follows - the circle represents the number 5 and
> the dot a 0, thus
> together they represent the number 50. There is no
> indication of units. As
> Aletheiak has said the other symbols in pictures 1
> and 3 are MISR which
> translates to "Egypt" and in picture 7 AL-SUDAN,
> i.e. "The Sudan".
>
>
> _____
>
> From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Jesper Nielsen
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:19 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: SV: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
>
>
>
> Could this be EGSD demarcation?
>
> http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575
>
> &pic=ALLhttp://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/maps/bs61.html
>
>
>
> Who reads Arabic? Isnt 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
>
> but thats just for titillation & profits us nothing=== message truncated ===
>
>
> &
> 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
> those
> > surveys be applied along the whole length of the
> respective meridian and
> > parallel, since it has already been accepted by
> the parties?
> >
> > I am reminded that it was the ancient Egyptians
> who invented surveying to
> > reestablish cadastral boundaries when the annual
> Nile floods erased
> landmarks.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@y...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:51 PM
> > Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
> >
> >
> > > nice stuff thanx
> > > & please look for quite a few inserts ahead
> > >
> > > --- Hugh Wallis <hugh@o...> wrote:
> > >
> > >> >>thus as likely wgs84 as any<<
> > >>
> > >> definitely won't be WGS84 since that was not in
> use
> > >> until 1984 (hence the
> > >> "84" in its name).
> > >
> > > hahaha you certainly may disallow me & i knew
> dat
> > > about 84
> > > but i dont infer wgs84 should be ruled out for
> that
> > > reason
> > >
>