Subject: ilkymo kyohwv & njnypa revisited<br/>
Date: Mar 20, 2003 @ 22:30<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-415525834">next there followed in rapid succession very casual revisits to ilkymo <br/>
kyohwv & njnypa<br/>
each as viewed thru fluffy surface fog from nearby bridges on 3 successive <br/>
moonlit nights<br/>
<br/>
ilkymo is particularly interesting<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=4097471&e=306348&=200">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=4097471&e=306348&=200</a><br/>
shows the tripoint in the middle of the mississippi<br/>
i believe erroneously<br/>
<br/>
it is well known that kentucky owns the entire ohio river bed from kyohwv to <br/>
ilkymo<br/>
<br/>
& downstream dams cause not only ohpawv & kyohwv but inkyoh & ilinky as well <br/>
to fall today no longer on the right bank of the ohio as originally <br/>
specified by royal charter but rather within the river itself at some small <br/>
distance off their original positions on the right bank<br/>
<br/>
that is understandable & commonplace<br/>
<br/>
however no downstream dam exists to explain the similar slight departure of <br/>
the ilky border from the right bank of the ohio as is indicated in the above <br/>
map<br/>
<br/>
yes please do check that out again<br/>
for i cant explain it<br/>
<br/>
& that is one conundrum that needs a solution if anyone can come up with it<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but beyond that<br/>
there is also a question of how the usgs justifies projecting ilky along the <br/>
right bank of the ohio<br/>
beyond the actual mouth of the ohio<br/>
<br/>
i can understand following thalweg boundaries to their natural conjunction <br/>
in the midst of a river confluence<br/>
no problem there<br/>
<br/>
but how do you justify following a riverbank boundary beyond the end of the <br/>
bank<br/>
<br/>
so that is a second stumper i need help solving<br/>
<br/>
& pending further light on either or both of these 2 mysteries<br/>
i think ilkymo may actually & legally fall just at the tip of land in the <br/>
crotch between the ohio & mississippi rivers<br/>
rather than as shown on the map<br/>
<br/>
indeed this is the point from which i had previously gazed out at & <br/>
photographed the usgs ilkymo position<br/>
while beating my feet in the mixed mississippi & ohio mud right there on <br/>
more than one occasion<br/>
but without yet supposing that the map was wrong & i myself right<br/>
as i do now believe<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
kyohwv was less impressive to revisit from aloft because it lies a bit <br/>
farther from its companion bridge<br/>
near a place still called kenova from the days when virginia reached <br/>
kentucky & ohio near here<br/>
& never properly renamed kenowva after wva separated from va<br/>
<br/>
but anyway<br/>
kyohwv does fall a bit off the right bank due to a known downstream dam<br/>
& was visited as accurately as possible there by canoe a few years ago<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& njnypa was of course best known & least impressive to revisit from on high <br/>
of all 3<br/>
yet as the third in succession under such strange & beautiful & <br/>
unpremeditated conditions<br/>
it was a multi charm<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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