- the abstract and the concrete
... meaning the southernmost corner of the surveyed line, or what? i read once that the north boundary of Washington is, in some places, hundreds of feet south
Oct 25, 2001 @ 03:50 - Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
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... places, ... where i ... to ... I ve just found this article which has some info: http://hotwired.lycos.com/netizen/96/53/special4a.html David
Oct 25, 2001 @ 08:14 - David Birch ("David Birch" <dbirch@...>)
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The written description of the boundary does not matter once it is marked on the ground and agreed to by both parties. This is a basic tenet of boundaryhood,
Oct 25, 2001 @ 11:58 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
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concerning ... (My thought when I first read of the anomaly was that the US boundary is 49th parallel as of 1846 and the Wa boundary is 49th parallel as of
Oct 25, 2001 @ 16:17 - Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
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What you say about river boundaries is true, or at least partly true. Boundaries have shifted with changing river courses. But this usually leads to a
Oct 25, 2001 @ 17:30 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
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right this is different from the canadian border i am just looking for the southernmost point in oregon it is logically & very probably a monumented point i
Oct 25, 2001 @ 20:01 - m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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... Hmm ... No county lines appear to run along the San Andreas, though some stretches of it are quite prominent on the ground. -- Anton Sherwood
Oct 26, 2001 @ 06:45 - Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
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In Van Zandt s book on the boundaries of the United States, he states (p. 155) that the northern boundary of the state of Washington is the boundary line
Oct 29, 2001 @ 01:41 - David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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The way I understand it is this: When the border along the 49th was first marked, it was as accurate as could be made with the technology available then. The
Oct 29, 2001 @ 02:14 - Doug Murray for StockPhotosOnline.com ("Doug Murray for StockPhotosOnline.com" <dmurray@...>)
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... first marked, it was as accurate as could be made with the technology available then. The Governments of Canada and the US later agreed that the border
Oct 29, 2001 @ 02:27 - David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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bend oregon same day ... to doug ... perhaps i am the other bp person you mean here david but this is not at all what i meant in fact this whole conversation
Oct 30, 2001 @ 01:58 - m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)