Subject: armook revisited<br/>
Date: Mar 20, 2003 @ 19:15<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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shows the situation of the tripoint<br/>
<br/>
& in view of all the questions raised in the improbable but true message <br/>
sequence<br/>
8445<br/>
8448<br/>
8449<br/>
8450<br/>
8453<br/>
8476<br/>
8477<br/>
culminating you may recall with that bp record 7day sky shot arrival delay<br/>
i clearly needed to get a fresh look at armook<br/>
<br/>
which i finally did a few days ago<br/>
& these are my new observations & new conclusions<br/>
with apologies for my former ignorance<br/>
<br/>
first<br/>
there is no reason to suppose the capstone is merely a pedestalized <br/>
decapitation of the original 1823 rock<br/>
but every reason to conclude it is all that is visible of the complete & <br/>
still fully erected original rock<br/>
the rest of which is encapsulized by the 2 successive surrounding <br/>
monumentations in 1915 & 1955<br/>
<br/>
but<br/>
this 1823 rock<br/>
with top dimple still distinct & date almost completely readable<br/>
cant be in its original position<br/>
<br/>
rather it must have been replanted here<br/>
because the entire hillside on which it originally stood has long since been <br/>
graded away in 20th century quarrying & road construction<br/>
<br/>
whether the rock was replanted in its original 1823 position however or 319 <br/>
feet south of the original position remains unclear<br/>
<br/>
there is no evidence of any marker or former marker 319 feet due north of <br/>
the monument<br/>
nor any 319 feet due south of it<br/>
nor 319 feet sse along arok for that matter<br/>
<br/>
& there is not necessarily any reason to conclude there has ever been any <br/>
319 foot southward displacement of the monument<br/>
but the data in bus&ss make just such a change seem likely to have occurred <br/>
in the 1840s<br/>
<br/>
but there is no reason to believe newspaper or folkloric reports of any <br/>
historical displacement of armook eastward or westward at any time<br/>
<br/>
on the contrary<br/>
bus&ss reports reparations were paid to the cherokees rather than correct a <br/>
faulty historic survey<br/>
<br/>
certainly the old stone was extracted & replanted during the 20th century <br/>
roadwork<br/>
yet not necessarily at all displaced at that time<br/>
rather only replanted at its regular location but lowered elevation after <br/>
the grading was completed<br/>
<br/>
this only or last replantment of the rock probably occurred in 1915 or 1955<br/>
<br/>
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