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[Ted Samsel]

For more than you may want to know:

BOUNDARIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE SEVERAL STATES
Geological Survey Professional Paper 909
by Franklin K Van Zandt
USGPO 1976

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> Mike reports:
> "Yeah, I had a grade school teacher one time who mentioned this fact. Seems
> that when surveyors were sent down here to stake lines for the great state
> of Arizona, they got drunk (and probably lost) in the middle of the desert,
> which
> lead to the fact that the southern border of Arizona (the border with
> Mexico) angles up to the northwest and ends at Yuma. It was supposedly
> planned that the border would continue straight east-west, giving Arizona
> some ocean-front property in the Gulf of California.
>  
> I've never ever been able to confirm this fact (and don't really care much
> one way or the other) but it always makes and interesting story..."
> 
> 
> Treaty that ended the "bloodless" Aroostock War in Maine and settled the
> boundary of Maine with Quebec.  It was supposed to go along the St. John River,
> but at one point got detoured off to a tributary.  The canny Yankees didn't
> let the British/Canadian side know about the detour.  When it was discovered,
> they just drew a straight line to New Hampshire.
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> 
Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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