Re: [eia] Russian Land Phase

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:18 PM 4/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Thus spake Michael Gorman:
> > At 09:55 PM 4/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Thus spake Michael Gorman:
> > > >
> > > > Cossacks:
> > > >       From west of Novgorod to Vilna
> > > >       From Vilna to between Warsaw and Posen
> > > >       From North of Vilna to Thorn
> > > >       From the Swamp east of Brest-Litovsk to NW of Lublin
> > > >       From NW of Taganrog to Odessa
> > > >       From west of Vitebsk to the easternmost Polesian swamp area
> > >
> > >I'd like to confirm: the swamp in the last one is the area SE of Minsk?
> > It isn't adjacent to Minsk at all.  It's four spaces due north of Nemirov
> > and has the junction point of White Russia, Polesia and Ukraine on its 
> border
> > .
>
> Aha. I was thinking of west, the other east. My mistake.

I'm familiar with this east.  Odd that north south always makes sense but 
east west evades intuition.



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