Three messages describing landhooks.--------Johnnie -------------------------------------------------------------- Fri, 5 Nov 1993 07:50:40 -0800 (PST) Jenny Marie Johnson <[log in to unmask]> RE: landhook Jim -- I might be making this up but isn't a landhook the think that looks like a stretched out "z" and is used on plat maps to show that the same person/persons owns parcels that adjoin each other but some of the parcels are too small to have the names in them? Unfortunately, I don't have anything here about survey systems so can't doublecheck this. Jenny Marie Johnson Map Collection University of Washington jmj@u ----------------------------------------------- Fri, 5 Nov 1993 19:56:52 +0100 [log in to unmask] landhook (A) Maybe you could try the following publication: Cartographical innovations : an international handbook of mapping terms to 1900 / ed. by Helen M. Wallis and Arthur H. Robinson. - [London?] : Map Collector Publications (1982) Ltd. in association with the International Cartographic Association, 1987. ISBN 0-906-430-04-6. However it is not so much my field of interest, so I really do not know. Jan Smits Mapcurator Royal Library, The Netherlands [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------- Fri, 05 Nov 1993 09:45:19 -0800 Joe Crotts <[log in to unmask]> RE: landhook It has been use to refer to a recurved spit, or more broadly any landform curved by wave action, and in some cases wind action as well. [log in to unmask]