Subject: worlds most perverse boundaries<br/>
Date: Oct 15, 2002 @ 21:20<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1026345399">according to the saskatchewan land surveyors association<br/>
nobody knows why the original manitoba west line of the 1880s<br/>
which has become the contemporary mbsk boundary<br/>
was produced in the peculiar stepstair configuration that is has<br/>
& which is probably a familiar conundrum to most map gazers<br/>
running as it does first northward from the american border <br/>
then zigging inexplicably westward a bit <br/>
then zagging to the north again <br/>
then west<br/>
then north<br/>
etc etc etc<br/>
for about 11 zigzags in all if i recall correctly<br/>
rather than in a single straight due north line<br/>
<br/>
but it may be a bit easier to explain why another old conundrum<br/>
the 1668 maryland virginia survey line<br/>
that was definitely supposed to run due east <br/>
at the latitude of the potomac mouth <br/>
across the eastern shore of the chesapeake <br/>
from pocomoke river to the atlantic <br/>
actually runs more than 5 degrees north of east  <br/>
<br/>
so can anyone account for either of these anomalies<br/>
or find any other survey boundary sectors that are quite so <br/>
perverse as these<br/>
<br/>
m</div>