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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m donner"
<maxivan82@h...> wrote:
> according to
> http://home.earthlink.net/~dawise/Maine.htm
> the oldest known extant caus monument dates from 1817
> but it was a replacement for a 1798 original
> which was itself the first monument on the caus line
> or rather on what was then the gbus line
>
> the position marked by these stones
> at the source of the st croix river
> or roughly halfway up the maine new brunswick boundary
> is shown in
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5087872&e594362
&s=25&symshow=n
> &
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5087872&e594362
&symshow=n
>
> as can be seen there
> the extant stone also marks the aroostook carlton york tricounty
point
> as well as the trimunicipal point formed by amity township &
north lake &
> richmond parishes
> at a single multi distinguished position thus named
> caus2menb3arcayo4amnori
> tho the ibc calls it simply monument number 1
>
> & no pix as it is a virgin
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> the first position marked on mxus
> according to bus&ss
> dates from around 1850
> & is now occupied by monument 258
> which you probably recall is the terminal rock overlooking the
pacific at
> tijuana imperial beach
>
> but whether the present monument 258 incorporated the
original or merely
> replaced it isnt known
> as the date of monument 258 itself isnt available
> & it could easily be much later
> judging from the pix we have seen of it
>
> if so
> then the oldest extant stone on mxus could be anywhere
>
> but
> also according to bus&ss
> there are 6 other prime candidates from the same original
bcca survey also
> including especially the opposite bcca terminal rock
> which is the one nearest azbcca & the mexican cable car tower
on the
> colorado river
> & which struck me as being quite old
> tho i neglected to photograph it
>
> but checking the dates on these 2 terminal rocks alone might
be sufficient
> to settle the matter
> without having to look for any of their 5 slightly younger survey
mates
> also possibly still standing somewhere in between
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