Subject: Re: oldest purely &#39;fiat&#39; international boundary?<br/>
Date: Dec 05, 2001 @ 04:22<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1845521585">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Wasn&#39;t the curved border between Pennsylvania and northern Delware <br/>
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&gt; established when these two colonies were independent of one another?<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>it was first mentioned in 1681 & first marked in 1701 when both de & pa were still owned by william penn tho under different leases  & was until de seceeded from pa in 1776 only the interjurisdictional line  as well as a county line of course<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; It certainly doesn&#39;t follow anything on the ground. It&#39;s curvy for <br/>
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&gt; more than 30 miles long, and there&#39;s not one straight inch between <br/>
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&gt; the start and the end of the curved part.  Come to think of it, I <br/>
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&gt; wonder how it is demarcated at every point where the border turns.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>it was measured off at a 12 mile radius from the new castle courthouse spire  but the existing arc line is actually a compromise of several arc segments of slightly different radii & center points  & there were always many problems with it<br/>
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if you would like an international example of an arc  the eastern end of the gambia senegal boundary is said by gideon to be an arc  tho it seems pretty sloppy to me on most maps i have seen<br/>
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