Subject: Re: Vertical Sovereignty.<br/>
Date: Nov 26, 2001 @ 17:55<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-559611439">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Ray Milefsky&quot; &lt;mrrayj@p...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; In the 1920s the World Court settled a mining dispute between the<br/>
&gt; Netherlands and Germany whereby the stream boundary, which followed <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; meandering thalweg, did not apply to the underground boundary, <br/>
 </span></blockquote>which was<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; based on a greatly simplified median line<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Is this the Worm/Wurm river, by any chance? I know that there were <br/>
problems with piles of rock coming from the coal mines, that were <br/>
altering the course of this boundary river because of the landslides <br/>
they were causing. But presumably, there were also problems below the <br/>
surface.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I am most interested in the book you cite.  Is it still commercially<br/>
&gt; available (I can read Dutch).<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Probably not, but you can always try. The ISBN is 90 70 427 850. The <br/>
Publishers are Kempen Pers B.V.<br/>
<br/>
One of the writers (Paul Spapens) is also a co-writer of a very <br/>
informative book on the practice of illegally distilling alcohol in <br/>
the Netherlands and Belgium (I believe the proper English word <br/>
is &quot;moonshining&quot;). He clearly has a very keen interest in anything <br/>
connected with customs (customs have the task of collecting excise <br/>
duties on alcohol in the Netherlands).<br/>
<br/>
And another thing: the book is very informative, but not particularly <br/>
well written, and sometimes I doubt (although this is intuitive) its <br/>
scientific reliability. The list of sources is impressive, but not <br/>
categorised at all, i.e. I don&#39;t know which bit in the book comes <br/>
from where.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>