Thank you, sir. Very glad to add these to my collection.Cheers,Henry

We have a Gurley light mountain transit that shares many characteristics with this one, but not, I think, the length of the scope; ours is 8.25".

This link gets me an error message.Best,Henry

I've spent a lot of years reading land records pertaining to Loudoun County, Virginia, and I have found my least favorite scrivener in the chancery ca...

P.S. Fussiness prompts be to note that Let Me Be Frank With You isn't a novel, but a collection of long stories.Thanks for your patience . . .Henry

Around here, quite a few of the books I get through are ones my wife and I have agreed that I’ll read aloud to us both. It can take a while, as in th...

Larry is in our prayers. He's a man of high spirits and deep resources, so we feel strongly hopeful.Henry & Mooshe

Superb. Of course yo already have to like that kind of music, and I do.Cheers,Henry

Oh, that Proust!Cheers,Henry

Hasn't it already been? A left margin made of the PID number is typical of the data sheet.Cheers,Henry

This is from the BLM Glossary: COLLATERAL EVIDENCE (CADASTRAL SURVEY) – Such things as acts and testimony of interested landowners, competent surveyor...

Thanks for posting this, Dave. Nice work about a beautiful part of the world.Cheers,Henry

Is it maybe this?"Red Book," Table 11: "Convergence of Meridians, Six Miles Long and Six Miles Apart, and Differences of Latitude and Longitude." PP. ...

If you change 2015.EP to 2015_EP, you can open the file with Notepad. It is legible in Excel, but not separated properly into cells.Cheers,Henry

Solution 2 Plot:Dave,Bravo! In some world or other, the east ends of the trapezoid and the lot just north of it would coincide, but they would also o...

As an aside ...Bill, it would cheer me immensely to have that connection, but it's very hard to know. Taylor is one of those names that don't all trac...

Solution 2 Plot:Dave, that looks mighty close to me. I don't know whether you can keep the drawing in place while looking at earlier maps, but the on...

Solution 2 Plot:Here's a screen shot of the 1937 aerial, with the bridge near the bottom center of the picture. The picture seems to have been assembl...

Solution 2 Plot:Bill, the crossing is about where it's been for a long time, though there is an 1853 map of the county (by Yardley Taylor!) that shows...