Norm, Looks like "Chessie" to me (cf. "Nessie" the Loch Ness monster).
Is Hudson Creek the home of the Volvo Round-the-World racing team and
its entry, named "Chessie" with a similar logo along her hull?
Likely just a figment of some illustrator's imagination, born out of
wearines late one evening, though I've heard that map-makers sometimes
include patently ridiculous names/symbols in obscure places, just as a
trap for someone infringing on their copyright by illegally photcopying
their work and claiming any similarities were only coincidence.
Several years back the Michigan State Highway map contained, in a half
inch of selvage just south of the border in Ohio, two fictional towns:
"Goblu" and "Beatosu" - - names of some significance to certain grads
of a well-known school in Ann Arbor.
Leo Weigant
>>> 9/30/04 1:49:50 PM >>>
If you have the DeLorme Maryland/Delaware Atlas & Gazetteer handy, see
if
you can answer this question for me.
On Map 39, lower right corner of the page, is Hudson Creek, flowing
into
the Little Choptank River. In a bay of Hudson Creek, just south of
the
town of Seabreeze, is a map symbol I have to say I've never noticed
before
on any map. The symbol does not appear on DeLorme's map legend,
either.
I'm assuming the symbol is a joke, but why there? Does it appear
anywhere
else in this atlas? In any others?
Best,
Norm
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Norm Saunders
West Ocean City and Colesville, MD
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