Re: Chinese or Viking fort on Cape Breton?


"Doug Weller" <dweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 25 May 2005 08:09:48 GMT, in sci.archaeology, zolota wrote:
>
>>
>>Cape Breton Island was first settled by Europeans about 300 years ago and
>>the indigenous population survived contact as distinct from many parts of
>>the Atlantic coast. You have to wonder how someone could allegedly go home
>>after living elsewhere for 20 years and suddenly discover a whole city
>>with
>>3.6 km of walls that descendants of the Europeans had never noticed nor
>>had
>>the native tribes any folk memory of a visit by UFO's (Unidentified
>>Floating
>>Objects) some 200 years prior to th arrival of the French in ~1600. The
>>story I read is that a guy returned home, went hunting, and found a city.
>>When he told the local archaeology community they refused to go out and
>>look
>>at it. That he was knowledgable of Chinese construction is another oddity,
>>he was living in Texas IIRC during those 20 years. Cape Bretton has one of
>>the oldest forts in NA and archaeology is rampant there.
>
> Ah, you've obviously found out that the discoverer is Paul Chiasson,
> right?
>
> Doug
>

Not really, at least not by name. I found the story and read it; family
names arn't that important. My problem or contribution to the thread,
depending on how you wish to view it, is that I've worked and lived with
Cape Bretoners for years. Some of them "use the truth dangerously" as some
of us like to say. Pulling the wool over someones eyes is a sport there.

The other thing too is that it sounds like someone confusing natural
geologic features with man -made ones. Dikes can look very engineered to the
non geologist. I've seen natural features that looked just like a road cut
for a highway and dikes that looked for all the world like causeways. So in
that case it would be an honest mistake not an attempt at bullshiting the
world.

To me it has to be one or the other for the reasons I stated. No chinese
expedition would have had the resources and the stupidity to build such a
large settlement as was claimed. But the proof is simple enough, investigate
it and look for artifacts. Who knows, maybe a natural feature feared by the
locals was used by Irish monks who altered it just a bit? Any human
modification would be interesting.

Z


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