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Re: Illinois drainage
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Nov 22, 21:08 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Nov 22, 21:08 EST
Gary LaPook wrote: "Chicago is as flat as a pancake because the land used to be the bottom of Lake Chicago. " Which reminds me of something funny about Chicago... In Lincoln Park on Chicago's north side, there are a couple of small hills (about 10 feet and 30 feet high). If you make the difficult ascent up one of them, pausing every now and then to acclimate yourself to the decreased oxygen, at the very summit you will find a marker, surrounded by drifting snow even in the middle of summer, that explains in geological terms exactly WHY there is a hill there. A hill needs an explanatory marker?? Now that's flat! For people practicing sextant sights, a flat city has one interesting advantage. Rows of streetlights extend straight as an arrow into the distance, and if you extend them visually they can indicate the location of the horizon to within a few minutes of arc. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars