[expat2]

Why use a magnetic compass when you have the sun and stars? Magnetic north is quite different from True North.

[muawiyah]

They were surveying but not highly precise surveying ~ just to carve out enough lots of sufficient size to graze a horse, allow for a cabin, grow some wheat, etc. whatever a man needed or wanted. Oh, and give them space. These were European born and raised folks and America was truly incredible ~ everything was not only bigger, anyone could be more expansive.

This 'town' had a stockade somewhere ~ or maybe it didn't ~ but enough lots were carved out to give it a general shape and outline ~ which I have found in less than 50 townsites anywhere in North America East of the MIssissippi. They are more common to the West.

BTW, at Cincinnati magnetic North and celestial North are pretty much the same place ~ there's a small but still discernible difference.

[muawiyah]

They were surveying but not highly precise surveying ~ just to carve out enough lots of sufficient size to graze a horse, allow for a cabin, grow some wheat, etc. whatever a man needed or wanted. Oh, and give them space. These were European born and raised folks and America was truly incredible ~ everything was not only bigger, anyone could be more expansive.

This 'town' had a stockade somewhere ~ or maybe it didn't ~ but enough lots were carved out to give it a general shape and outline ~ which I have found in less than 50 townsites anywhere in North America East of the MIssissippi. They are more common to the West.

BTW, at Cincinnati magnetic North and celestial North are pretty much the same place ~ there's a small but still discernible difference.