Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] new alflga was re the odd couple of txus & esus
Date: Mar 23, 2003 @ 05:33
Author: Victor Cantore (Victor Cantore <drpotatoes@...>)
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mike,

wonderful photos in your last few posts thoroughly
enjoyable

vc
--- m donner <maxivan82@...> wrote:
> thanx brian
> & here for an ellicott encore are the first known
> pix of 21st century alflga
>
> the monument is really just a glorified signpost
> towering above the
> chattahoochee bluff for the benefit of river traffic
> & is in fact a great
> challenge & peril to photographers
> who must risk falling backwards over the bank to get
> a decent shot
>
> the degminsec latitude proclaimed is several seconds
> off
> & it isnt clear whether the monument is intended to
> be the tripoint marker
> per se
> or only a witness to the tripoint
> which is actually set by statute at the high water
> mark on the bank of the
> river
> a position which lies several feet away from the
> base of the monument both
> vertically & horizontally
>
> but here are 3 pix of the new & one of the old
> alflga
> which latter you may even recognize as the
> frontispiece of the old corner
> corner
>
> note that the tree is now just the stump
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg name=alflga2000.jpg


> ATTACHMENT part 3 image/jpeg name=alflgabase.jpg


> ATTACHMENT part 4 image/jpeg name=alflgaeast.jpg


> ATTACHMENT part 5 image/jpeg name=alflga.jpg



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