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Logs as survey instruments



Hi fellow listservers: I don't know anything about the log floating theory
of state boundaries, but there is an interesting story in a book on the
history of cartography about floating logs down rivers from the Himalayas to
see if they led to Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers.  it required a lama and a
surveyor disguised as the lama's servant to travel into Tibet in 1880.
First try did not work!! this was part of the Great India survey.
    see: John Noble Wilford: The Mapmakers (Knopf 1981), pp. 172-173.
    The boundary on the Connecticut Rvr between New Hampshire and Vermont
was settled by the Supreme court, and did not involve logs.
Linda Morrison (Boston area)

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