Ted writes:

> Go to Attu island sometime.  Get to know the natives.  Ask them which
> direction
>  Unimak is from there.  Watch which direction they point.  East.  Go to
> Unimak.
>  Ask the folks there which direciton Sand Point is.  East.  Continue this
>  process until you fall into the Atlantic.  Have a good swim.  Go home and
>  write your memoirs.

That's fine, of course, but all that you're doing in this form of
cartographical relativism is redefining the prime meridan (east-west dividing
line) to be whereever you happen to be at the moment. But that presents a
miserable way to run a railroad, or a steamship line, or even draw a map.

Wirt Atmar