Re: Kensington runestone Vegetation)in the Scandinavian press

Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> says in
news:7cura1tesnk930jbeqgl6is150f906nh7u@xxxxxxx:

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:21:36 +0200, "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>> apart from which we do know that there weren't a parkland but
>>> a marsh/swampland with water in the ground during most of 19th
>>> century from the first map up to the 1880's maps the area
>>> around the hight where the stone was found is marked swamp
>>> land.
>>
>>Your scale is wrong. Think big.
>>Your swamp is c. one third of a mile².
>>That is only a very small part of a parklandscape.
>
> In the 19th century much of Minnesota was a swamp. That's why
> they put so much effort into draining it.
>

I don't know about that, at least during the Ox-cart years the region
around kensington to both the north and south had trails.
Possibly there was a natural drying out the came down the red river
as navigable portions were connected to one another.

http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/mnriver/uppermn.html

"
During the summer of 1767, Jonathan Carver, an English-colonial and
one of the most noted chroniclers of early America, described the
upper river as, "A most delightful country, abounding with all the
necessaries of life that grow spontaneously. Wild rice grows here in
great abundance; and every part is filled with trees bending under
their loads of fruit, such as plums, grapes and apples." Even as
recent as 1966, a report by the United States Geological Survey
stated that surface waters of the Big Stone Lake sub-watershed,
although hard were generally of good quality.
"

There are actually surveys from the mid 18th century I posted the
last time the issue came up. There is no particular good information
on what minnesota was like in 1362 however the height of the swamps
tended to rise in cold weather and fall during warmer periods,
probably as a result of ice blockages in the northern red river
valley as a result of prolonged winter cold periods. Even so the
height of lake Agassiz never reached kensington after 7 kya, and the
shore would have been miles away, with a 200 lb stone more than 1
days walk.

Although if you can show there was something markedly different about
the kensington/west story. I am realatively certain that that KRS is
probably refering to the great lakes, and in the end one will have to
concede it is a fraud or transported from somewhere else and dropped.





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