Most Important Angle

[Justawolf]

Illustrations attached
"The most important angle in Geometry is 90 degrees, or the fourth part of a circle."
These are the measurements Of Nolan's Cross.
The cross is a special right triangle set to 60 degrees or (30 degrees) angle to latitude.
When lowered 30 degrees to to run parallel with latitude the same measurements can be applied and suspiciously line up with many findings on the island.
90 degrees 90 feet
360 degrees 360 feet

 

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[SSR]

They also suspiciously line up with the survey of 1762 done by Charles Morris. What one cannot do is allege that some ancient treasure depositors knew the heading that Morris would choose for the road across the island in the year prior to the arrival of the New England Planter settlers at OI. Since it cannot be prior to 1762, or after 1762, we are more or less forced to conclude that any surveyed geometry that relates very well to the road across the island is datable and is a feature of the Morris survey.

Consider the regular nature of the angles in relation to the road heading. The Cross inclination is 50 degrees N of the road and 30 degrees N of the W-E line. The cross' internal angles formed by the stone positions are a nice round 40, 50, 90 degrees exactly. The internal distances between stones on the the Cross are forced by the geometric plan that ties everything to the existence of a 40 degree angle in a scheme that uses Thales' theorem as a framework on paper. This image shows those distances which coincide with what is given to us in ca1982 by Nolan, and then by Amundsen. The line A-M in this image reproduces the lot boundary heading.

Add to this the fact that the Cross stem's heading is that of the great circle to Jerusalem and it is pretty clear that someone planned his choices to make all this come out so elegantly. Who planned, and who surveyed there? Charles Morris. Only he ever knew the heading he chose for the road and lot boundaries. No previous individuals knew those to make a money pit be related to it as perfectly as you allege.

What is Morris giving you? Evidence of his survey. Did he want to signal out a ground cross symbol in relation to Jerusalem? Possibly. Does the Welling pointer point to the exact spot on the horizon the celestial Cross (Northern Cross) sets each and every day at OI's latitude? Yes, it does. Is that just that a coincidence? No. It's particular to the latitude in question. Is there a symbolic possibility in signaling both the Cross and Jerusalem? Yes, there is. Someone may be trying to reclaim that constellation as a Christian symbol, as opposed to a pagan one (Swan=Zeus). This sort of thing would be part of a known effort to Christianize the constellations which traces to Germany. Who might have wanted to do this sort of rebranding? Holy Royal Arch Freemasons who were partial to the idea that observable geometric relations in our world should be counted as evidence of the existence of the Christian God who is coming to save you. Was Morris such a Mason? Yes. How do we know this? He was an original member of Erasmus James Philipps 40th regiment of foot that contained the first Masonic Lodge in British Canada a Annapolis Royal. Between the time Morris charted Mahone Bay for the British in 1751 and the 1763 settlement of the Shoreham grant he had advanced to be Surveyor General of the province. The philosophy attached to the creation of the new British colony a the time (ca1760) was that of raising a God fearing colony of men who would be led by their own self guidance based in the Laws laid oud by God. The entire project reeked of British Protestant Christian exceptionalism which was also closely tied to the elimination of the French Catholic Acadians (1755-1760) and native population which following the treaty of Peace of 1760. Morris, as it turns out, was one of the first who had suggested that the French lands should be surveyed and tuned into townships for New England colonists (prior to 1751). It is his plan that was executed from 1755-60. The plan was always touted to be part of God's plan for England's Empire and Dominion. If there is one thing Haliburton tells us it's that "the Old Judge", aka God, is central to the OI story.

 

[Justawolf]

They also suspiciously line up with the survey of 1762 done by Charles Morris. What one cannot do is allege that some ancient treasure depositors knew the heading that Morris would choose for the road across the island in the year prior to the arrival of the New England Planter settlers at OI. Since it cannot be prior to 1762, or after 1762, we are more or less forced to conclude that any surveyed geometry that relates very well to the road across the island is datable and is a feature of the Morris survey.

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Consider the regular nature of the angles in relation to the road heading. The Cross inclination is 50 degrees N of the road and 30 degrees N of the W-E line. The cross' internal angles formed by the stone positions are a nice round 40, 50, 90 degrees exactly. The internal distances between stones on the the Cross are forced by the geometric plan that ties everything to the existence of a 40 degree angle in a scheme that uses Thales' theorem as a framework on paper. This image shows those distances which coincide with what is given to us in ca1982 by Nolan, and then by Amundsen. The line A-M in this image reproduces the lot boundary heading.

Add to this the fact that the Cross stem's heading is that of the great circle to Jerusalem and it is pretty clear that someone planned his choices to make all this come out so elegantly. Who planned, and who surveyed there? Charles Morris. Only he ever knew the heading he chose for the road and lot boundaries. No previous individuals knew those to make a money pit be related to it as perfectly as you allege.

What is Morris giving you? Evidence of his survey. Did he want to signal out a ground cross symbol in relation to Jerusalem? Possibly. Does the Welling pointer point to the exact spot on the horizon the celestial Cross (Northern Cross) sets each and every day at OI's latitude? Yes, it does. Is that just that a coincidence? No. It's particular to the latitude in question. Is there a symbolic possibility in signaling both the Cross and Jerusalem? Yes, there is. Someone may be trying to reclaim that constellation as a Christian symbol, as opposed to a pagan one (Swan=Zeus). This sort of thing would be part of a known effort to Christianize the constellations which traces to Germany. Who might have wanted to do this sort of rebranding? Holy Royal Arch Freemasons who were partial to the idea that observable geometric relations in our world should be counted as evidence of the existence of the Christian God who is coming to save you. Was Morris such a Mason? Yes. How do we know this? He was an original member of Erasmus James Philipps 40th regiment of foot that contained the first Masonic Lodge in British Canada a Annapolis Royal. Between the time Morris charted Mahone Bay for the British in 1751 and the 1763 settlement of the Shoreham grant he had advanced to be Surveyor General of the province. The philosophy attached to the creation of the new British colony a the time (ca1760) was that of raising a God fearing colony of men who would be led by their own self guidance based in the Laws laid oud by God. The entire project reeked of British Protestant Christian exceptionalism which was also closely tied to the elimination of the French Catholic Acadians (1755-1760) and native population which following the treaty of Peace of 1760. Morris, as it turns out, was one of the first who had suggested that the French lands should be surveyed and tuned into townships for New England colonists (prior to 1751). It is his plan that was executed from 1755-60. The plan was always touted to be part of God's plan for England's Empire and Dominion. If there is one thing Haliburton tells us it's that "the Old Judge", aka God, is central to the OI story.

Does this line up then?

 

[SSR]

Does this line up then?View attachment 2193538

That's not clear enough for me to know what you are trying to show. The image/page seems distorted.

I like to show this image because I think it is doing a few things that help us realize how some things are clearly related to Morris's choices. The base of the stem of the Cross sits adjacent to the road, but there is also a point c which makes a radius from it to the head stone position, defining points C2 and C3 on the W-E heading. C2 can be seen to work as a center to define points D and E on a large equilateral triangle. The line D-E is the line given by the Welling triangle pointer. Furthermore if you use that large equilateral triangle as the counterpart to what the Welling Pointer shows you can divide its side in 4:6 exactly as it is given to us. What that works out to is shown at point F. Applying the Welling pointer's depicted geometry to Morris' larger Plan gives us the position of the Welling pointer. The coincidence is rather elegant.

D-E also points to the celestial N where three things set exactly at the horizon each and ever day at 44.51N. One of them is the Norther Cross (in Cygnus), the second is the star Capella in the constellation of Auriga and the third is a minor constellation named Quadrans Muralis that is depicted like this:

The three form a near equilateral triangle in the sky that travels around Polaris.

This gives us a triple coincidence of the same motif.
It is impossible that anything which is based on Nolan's cross or the Welling triangle predate Morris' 1762 survey. Keep in mind that the elevation of the Cross from the W-E line gives the Great Circle heading to Jerusalem too. That added element of detail informs us that we're dealing with someone who is executing something that was really only starting to be possible in the late 1750s (a time where longitude precision would allow that).

 

[Justawolf]

I thank you for your input. I find it fascinating that how many proposed theories are presented about the island and the treasure, that correlate with other theories. The stone triangle even represents on your illustration.
Hopefully the illustrations attached will make the article clearer.

Just wondering what the yellow dotted line represents on your map?

 

[SSR]

I thank you for your input. I find it fascinating that how many proposed theories are presented about the island and the treasure, that correlate with other theories. The stone triangle even represents on your illustration.
Hopefully the illustrations attached will make the article clearer.
View attachment 2193836Just wondering what the yellow dotted line represents on your map?

That's just the W-E heading from the base of the Cross at the road.

You are tricking yourself by saying that it is amazing that so many theories align. Theories align because they employ the survey as a starting point without even recognizing this was done by Morris. The island wasn't planned and surveyed by Romans! The theories are all being built to incorporate what is there which we can account for historically. The only thing that exists there which we can date exactly is a survey done in 1762. Given that it is possible to fiddle with regular geometry in very elegant ways, it happens that we can produce things that are elegant by being clever about it.

Keep in mind that no one ever gave the Welling pointer before long after 1762 (1880-90s?). That means that everything I show could have been produced using Morris' regular plan to build some suggestion that would seem to fit. We do not know what detail has informed what. It it also possible, given only the heading of the road and the lot boundaries, that Nolan himself could have constructed a cross suggestion that also involved the Welling Pointer which was known to him (as well as the Roper survey). Either the cross came with the road survey or it came after and is used to show a heading that is 30 degrees N of the W-E line. The cross conserves the lot boundary headings within the choices of the distances between the cones in it and a series of regular angles that are in harmony with the regular angles Morris used. It means it is contingent with knowledge of where the road was placed. This is not good news for anyone who thinks this is old or part of a treasure map/riddle.

The base of the cross is immediately adjacent to the road. The vertical from the road to the head stone is the lot boundary heading. The only way you could square that with ancient theories is to say that a later modern survey relates only by dumb luck to Nolan's Cross and other things. We are stuck trying to explain why Morris may have wanted to signal a Great Circle to Jerusalem with a cross which has the equivalent of one above which sets exactly where the Welling pointer points to. If it is not Morris then I have even less hope that we could find an individual who could have done this once the damn island became lived on starting in 1763. Someone would have needed to redo some surveying across various lots that were all owned by different grantees.

 

[TruthbeTold]

Does this line up then?View attachment 2193538

As with everything else on oak island it lines up with nothing.

 

[Justawolf]

It was the theories and clues that allowed me to grab a drafting compass, set it to 360 feet at 360 degree radius, with the two main triangles, an isosceles triangle and special right triangle, to coincidentally line up many locations on the island using google maps. Suspiciously more so when using a LIDAR map. As with everything, it's just speculation.

That's just the W-E heading from the base of the Cross at the road.

You are tricking yourself by saying that it is amazing that so many theories align. Theories align because they employ the survey as a starting point without even recognizing this was done by Morris. The island wasn't planned and surveyed by Romans! The theories are all being built to incorporate what is there which we can account for historically. The only thing that exists there which we can date exactly is a survey done in 1762. Given that it is possible to fiddle with regular geometry in very elegant ways, it happens that we can produce things that are elegant by being clever about it.

Keep in mind that no one ever gave the Welling pointer before long after 1762 (1880-90s?). That means that everything I show could have been produced using Morris' regular plan to build some suggestion that would seem to fit. We do not know what detail has informed what. It it also possible, given only the heading of the road and the lot boundaries, that Nolan himself could have constructed a cross suggestion that also involved the Welling Pointer which was known to him (as well as the Roper survey). Either the cross came with the road survey or it came after and is used to show a heading that is 30 degrees N of the W-E line. The cross conserves the lot boundary headings within the choices of the distances between the cones in it and a series of regular angles that are in harmony with the regular angles Morris used. It means it is contingent with knowledge of where the road was placed. This is not good news for anyone who thinks this is old or part of a treasure map/riddle.

The base of the cross is immediately adjacent to the road. The vertical from the road to the head stone is the lot boundary heading. The only way you could square that with ancient theories is to say that a later modern survey relates only by dumb luck to Nolan's Cross and other things. We are stuck trying to explain why Morris may have wanted to signal a Great Circle to Jerusalem with a cross which has the equivalent of one above which sets exactly where the Welling pointer points to. If it is not Morris then I have even less hope that we could find an individual who could have done this once the damn island became lived on starting in 1763. Someone would have needed to redo some surveying across various lots that were all owned by different grantees.

 

[SSR]

As with everything else on oak island it lines up with nothing.

When Morris surveyed OI he also surveyed the Shoreham grant immediately on shore there. The regular gridwork there allows for anyone to align many things by laying down a regular geometry over it. Inside of a square it is easy to build a equilateral triangle, a circle or a golden rectangle by just joining points. Where I think it is interesting is with the choice of the place where the OI story appears. It is not given on any other of the 365 islands in that Bay. It uses the one that has on it 44.51N. That is to say, it does not prefer to use the 44.4N that would have been of use with Hobson's Nose where the original story that inspired the OI one originated in 1830. What we have is a travelling story that may be using its position. 44.51N is an invitation to involve the constellation Cygnus and the Northern Cross in the way it was done much earlier in Italy. 44.4N would have been an invitation to use a Mercator map alignment from Giza through the Pillars of Hercules. That alignment belongs to another story which has ties to John Dee in England in the 1580. The geometry in that tone is upon a plane projection of the globe. Anyone with any degree of cleverness could have fished from a least those two factoids to craft their mystery suggestion.

 

[Justawolf]

When Morris surveyed OI he also surveyed the Shoreham grant immediately on shore there. The regular gridwork there allows for anyone to align many things by laying down a regular geometry over it. Inside of a square it is easy to build a equilateral triangle, a circle or a golden rectangle by just joining points. Where I think it is interesting is with the choice of the place where the OI story appears. It is not given on any other of the 365 islands in that Bay. It uses the one that has on it 44.51N. That is to say, it does not prefer to use the 44.4N that would have been of use with Hobson's Nose where the original story that inspired the OI one originated in 1830. What we have is a travelling story that may be using its position. 44.51N is an invitation to involve the constellation Cygnus and the Northern Cross in the way it was done much earlier in Italy. 44.4N would have been an invitation to use a Mercator map alignment from Giza through the Pillars of Hercules. That alignment belongs to another story which has ties to John Dee in England in the 1580. The geometry in that tone is upon a plane projection of the globe. Anyone with any degree of cleverness could have fished from a least those two factoids to craft their mystery suggestion.

Using a specified distance? Very interesting these points would align using 180 feet, 360 feet, 720 feet etc., at 360 degrees and only using the most important angles of geometry (30, 45, 60 & 90)? And also using the measurements given to be Nolan's Cross? (The same measurements). I'm not very good at math or geometry, but they say math is a little more concrete than history. Anyone know what King Henry I shoe size was? I'd say about a foot.
It could lend credence to why Morris would align the lots on oak island to a 30 degree plane. Was it the best way to divide the island or was it the best way to maintain the integrity of the cross? Did Morris know of the supposed treasure? Many of the lots occupied on the island are in significant locations and seem to have owners with a more interesting history? This area has been well known to many explorations prior to any survey for some reason.

 

[SSR]

Using a specified distance? Very interesting these points would align using 180 feet, 360 feet, 720 feet etc., at 360 degrees and only using the most important angles of geometry (30, 45, 60 & 90)? And also using the measurements given to be Nolan's Cross? (The same measurements). I'm not very good at math or geometry, but they say math is a little more concrete than history. Anyone know what King Henry I shoe size was? I'd say about a foot.
It could lend credence to why Morris would align the lots on oak island to a 30 degree plane. Was it the best way to divide the island or was it the best way to maintain the integrity of the cross? Did Morris know of the supposed treasure? Many of the lots occupied on the island are in significant locations and seem to have owners with a more interesting history? This area has been well known to many explorations prior to any survey for some reason.

Why would it be very interesting? When we sit down and draw plans we tend to not arbitrarily use any old angles or fractions of them. Roof pitches are like that, for example. Given the freedom of choice, we randomly pick nice round numbers unless there is a reason to make things fit to some reference.

There's no treasure. I'm getting from you what I have seen before from people who are forced to admit that Morris planned and surveyed that island in 1762, and that Nolan's Cross + the Welling Pointer are well accounted for by it. To keep their theories alive they have no choice but to suggest that Morris knew where the treasure was. That's preposterous as a suggestion. If he knew where a physical treasure was why would he have been involved in the granting of the said land to NE settlers the following year? If he knew and removed it (as others might suggest) then why even bother signaling that in his plan choices and make his life more complicated. His job as Surveyor General was to divide the land for the arrival of the grantees of 1763. He did so using regular plans both on OI and at Shoreham. Neither, in their regularity, suggest a treasure, I'm afraid.

Since we know he surveyed, and because we have a record of him hiring the local German population to do the work we know that it wasn't a one man show, or even a close group of secretive members. Many dozen German locals would have been on it.

The alleged MP location needs no map to find. It's the highest point on the island. If you can imagine yourself surveying the place, you might intuitively understand that sighting from this cleared point allows you to see to all sides along cleared lines. This means that the location itself has utility and that it could have easily been used to define the line giving the celestial North heading as a reference. Determining celestial North is not done by compass. It is done by sighting. You can sight Polaris if you want. You can also sight 2 major stars at that ground latitude that have their daily low culmination exactly at the Northern horizon (Deneb, Capella). All other angles in your survey can be referenced to that heading and be nice round numbers (actually the case).

Nolan's cross, as it was given to us by Nolan and Amundsen, has distances for the stone cone positions that appear "off" to those who look for simpler regular relationships. They don't fit a "tree of life suggestion", for example. There is something in it that is much more "calculated" if we stick to the distances we were given. It's length to width is in proportion 5 x 8. The stone which is 429 feet from the "head stone" defines a 40 degree angle between the stem and the arm end boulder position reported to be 360 feet from the head stone position. It happens that arc tan (360/429)=40.002 and that arc tan (429/360)=49.998. These angles are not constructible angles using compass and straight edge on paper. If you wanted to suggest a best fit expression that would give you an angle of 40 degrees, your best choice would be to use the ratio 360/429, or multiples of it. The distance from the 429 foot cone to the 360 boulder also happens to be given by a near perfect Pythagorean triple where the hypothenuse is 560 feet. We therefore have two choices here. Either someone sighted 40 degrees from a cone with a precise surveying device, or someone worked those distances out on paper and measured them off at some point with the intention of forming a 40/50/90 triangle to give us a stem that extends down to the road at 30 degrees N from W-E. What we cannot say is that 429 feet is just a number pulled out of a hat. The paper option does not eliminate the possibility that anyone could have done this at some point after the survey. What tends to lend support to the notion that it wasn't is the fact that the bottom of the cross is adjacent to the road Morris surveyed AND that Nolan, had he faked the stone cone locations, seems to have faked himself into a wasting a lot of time trying to determine if they were related to anything else he might discover. Is it reasonable to say he put himself to task, or duped himself precisely? It doesn't seem likely. Robert S. Young once told me that there were not any more of those cones to choose from in he vicinity of this alignment. It's troubling to me that they work out so well with a given geometry. That implies someone's intent. Was it Morris' intent to give you the great circle heading to Jerusalem? It may have been.

Does the Cross need to be 30 degrees N of he W-E heading? No, not really. That does not need to be 30 just like the 40, 50 and 90 degree angles don't need to come out of Nolan's Cross. Incorporating the 60 degree angle really turns this scheme into an elegant thing , because it also yields the Welling pointer position and heading through the highest point on the island.

In my opinion what is most reasonable would be to assume that Morris knew as much as anyone did about a treasure (aka, nothing). There are practical reasons why his survey may have wanted to involve the MP area. There are Freemasonic reasons why he may have wanted to point to Jerusalem, butt those are not as easily appreciated.

We must not forget that the story of a circular depression under a tree with a block hanging from it is not from the OI story. That is from the nearby Hobson's Nose story that dates to ca1830. The local historian DesBrisay had no explanation for why the details of the Hobson's Nose story shifted to OI. It made little sense to him that the searches where not happening at HN. What we can say is that there are reasons why the population might want to gloss over that. The desire to believe is strong in those who come up on suggestions they like.

 

[Justawolf]

Why would it be very interesting? When we sit down and draw plans we tend to not arbitrarily use any old angles or fractions of them. Roof pitches are like that, for example. Given the freedom of choice, we randomly pick nice round numbers unless there is a reason to make things fit to some reference.

There's no treasure. I'm getting from you what I have seen before from people who are forced to admit that Morris planned and surveyed that island in 1762, and that Nolan's Cross + the Welling Pointer are well accounted for by it. To keep their theories alive they have no choice but to suggest that Morris knew where the treasure was. That's preposterous as a suggestion. If he knew where a physical treasure was why would he have been involved in the granting of the said land to NE settlers the following year? If he knew and removed it (as others might suggest) then why even bother signaling that in his plan choices and make his life more complicated. His job as Surveyor General was to divide the land for the arrival of the grantees of 1763. He did so using regular plans both on OI and at Shoreham. Neither, in their regularity, suggest a treasure, I'm afraid.

Since we know he surveyed, and because we have a record of him hiring the local German population to do the work we know that it wasn't a one man show, or even a close group of secretive members. Many dozen German locals would have been on it.

The alleged MP location needs no map to find. It's the highest point on the island. If you can imagine yourself surveying the place, you might intuitively understand that sighting from this cleared point allows you to see to all sides along cleared lines. This means that the location itself has utility and that it could have easily been used to define the line giving the celestial North heading as a reference. Determining celestial North is not done by compass. It is done by sighting. You can sight Polaris if you want. You can also sight 2 major stars at that ground latitude that have their daily low culmination exactly at the Northern horizon (Deneb, Capella). All other angles in your survey can be referenced to that heading and be nice round numbers (actually the case).

Nolan's cross, as it was given to us by Nolan and Amundsen, has distances for the stone cone positions that appear "off" to those who look for simpler regular relationships. They don't fit a "tree of life suggestion", for example. There is something in it that is much more "calculated" if we stick to the distances we were given. It's length to width is in proportion 5 x 8. The stone which is 429 feet from the "head stone" defines a 40 degree angle between the stem and the arm end boulder position reported to be 360 feet from the head stone position. It happens that arc tan (360/429)=40.002 and that arc tan (429/360)=49.998. These angles are not constructible angles using compass and straight edge on paper. If you wanted to suggest a best fit expression that would give you an angle of 40 degrees, your best choice would be to use the ratio 360/429, or multiples of it. The distance from the 429 foot cone to the 360 boulder also happens to be given by a near perfect Pythagorean triple where the hypothenuse is 560 feet. We therefore have two choices here. Either someone sighted 40 degrees from a cone with a precise surveying device, or someone worked those distances out on paper and measured them off at some point with the intention of forming a 40/50/90 triangle to give us a stem that extends down to the road at 30 degrees N from W-E. What we cannot say is that 429 feet is just a number pulled out of a hat. The paper option does not eliminate the possibility that anyone could have done this at some point after the survey. What tends to lend support to the notion that it wasn't is the fact that the bottom of the cross is adjacent to the road Morris surveyed AND that Nolan, had he faked the stone cone locations, seems to have faked himself into a wasting a lot of time trying to determine if they were related to anything else he might discover. Is it reasonable to say he put himself to task, or duped himself precisely? It doesn't seem likely. Robert S. Young once told me that there were not any more of those cones to choose from in he vicinity of this alignment. It's troubling to me that they work out so well with a given geometry. That implies someone's intent. Was it Morris' intent to give you the great circle heading to Jerusalem? It may have been.

Does the Cross need to be 30 degrees N of he W-E heading? No, not really. That does not need to be 30 just like the 40, 50 and 90 degree angles don't need to come out of Nolan's Cross. Incorporating the 60 degree angle really turns this scheme into an elegant thing , because it also yields the Welling pointer position and heading through the highest point on the island.

In my opinion what is most reasonable would be to assume that Morris knew as much as anyone did about a treasure (aka, nothing). There are practical reasons why his survey may have wanted to involve the MP area. There are Freemasonic reasons why he may have wanted to point to Jerusalem, butt those are not as easily appreciated.

We must not forget that the story of a circular depression under a tree with a block hanging from it is not from the OI story. That is from the nearby Hobson's Nose story that dates to ca1830. The local historian DesBrisay has no explanation for why the details of the Hobson's Nose story shifted to OI. It made little sense to him that the searches where not happening at HN. What we can say is that there are reasons why the population might want to gloss over that. The desire to believe is strong in those who come up on suggestions they like.

Regardless of the history and Morris's ties to Freemasons, the illustration of the black cross indicates the simple geometry of Nolan's cross, which aligns 30 degrees to latitude and points with the cross arms, towards the 429 foot stone of the red cross strewn across the money pit area. Nolan's Cross is a template for the money pit area. It is the same distance as the measurements of Nolan's Cross. 429+293=722. 360+360=720.
And the pitch of my roof does matter. If the sun were to have to shine off the very peak every winter solstice the angle would have to be perfect. The angles used are what "they" call the most important. I did not use random measurements to have the illustration align. (90, 60, 45, & 30.) Maybe the Cross needs to be 30 degrees to incorporate the welling pointer and to form the special right triangle and on the 44.51N heading?
I'm just interested in why these points align so well?

On an East West plane on the 44.51N latitude.
A- 90degrees to Nolan's cross cone D; 1442 feet from Cave in shaft
B- 180 feet from A; Aligns 90 degrees with the eye of swamp; Aligns 90degrees to Nolan's cross cone C (left arm); 90degrees to SW corner of swamp
C- 180 feet from B; 360 feet from A; Aligns 90degress to Nolan's cross, cross stone
D- 293 feet from C; Aligns 60degrees to match Nolan's Cross, cross arms: Aligns 90degrees to the North is whatever feeds the swamp
E- 429 feet from D; 722 feet from C; Proposed Money Pit; 90degrees to stone triangle
F- 360 feet from E; Cave in shaft

 

[SSR]

Regardless of the history and Morris's ties to Freemasons, the illustration of the black cross indicates the simple geometry of Nolan's cross, which aligns 30 degrees to latitude and points with the cross arms, towards the 429 foot stone of the red cross strewn across the money pit area. Nolan's Cross is a template for the money pit area. It is the same distance as the measurements of Nolan's Cross. 429+293=722. 360+360=720.
And the pitch of my roof does matter. If the sun were to have to shine off the very peak every winter solstice the angle would have to be perfect. The angles used are what "they" call the most important. I did not use random measurements to have the illustration align. (90, 60, 45, & 30.) Maybe the Cross needs to be 30 degrees to incorporate the welling pointer and to form the special right triangle and on the 44.51N heading?
I'm just interested in why these points align so well?

Why? Because they are made by observers to "align" by being involved in regular geometry that boiled down to someone's choices. As soon as regular angles are involved there is nothing to stop anyone from involving a million planar geometry demonstrations that appear elegant and fit. 40 degrees, for example, is the hard center angle of the nonagon. It is possible to overlay a nonagon over Nolan's Cross and continue on building by projecting lines until one is somewhere in the vicinity of the MP location (it helps that its position is not even known). That would also look elegant. That's possible because there are regular angles in the Cross. Even the 26.57 degree angle from the base stone to the end of arm boulder can be made to fit almost exactly in the Masonic compass and square geometry (the top angle). Because it fits, should we deduce it was considered? I have collected quite a few ways where one could build using what is given without altering any of the stone positions in Nolan's Cross. Using golden rectangles and spirals works really well too.

It's the elegance that makes us think that it must mean something. That's the same error that a lot of people were doing when science started to be about collecting observations of the natural world in the early 17th century. The existence of geometric relations in the world was used as evidence of the certainty of God's plan, and as ammunition for the idea at God was a geometer. The consequence of that sort of thinking is that the same regular geometry used to plan and survey can be interpreted as having religious significance (by people like Rick Lagina). Are we seeing a riddle that leads us to a treasure when we see some choices that are found in the survey of OI? No, that's bad syllogism. We are free to ask the question about what may have motivated Morris' choices. It is my hunch that Freemasons after Morris may have looked at his regular plan and deduced that the choices must mean something in light of his links to early NS Freemasonry via Erasmus Philipps (who was obsessed with a God inspired plan for the British colony). But is also possible there's nothing to that and that Morris simply happens to have chosen to divide exactly as he divided everywhere else he planned. That is to say, by starting with rectangles of 2:1 proportion or squares for large land grants.

Would Morris have liked to suggest a Cross of 8 by 5 aspect ratio? I could see it, but that is only because I see all sorts of evidence of 40 in this story and because Freemasonry came to NS in the 40th regiment with Philipps. 40 is the most prolific number symbol used in the Bible. It appears 153 times (more or less depending on later versions) and that number also has a geometric component and a significant appearance in the OI fiction and in Freemasonry.

44.51N is a latitude. The welling pointer could be at any W-E position and remain at that latitude. The only way 44.51N figures is in how the sky looks when observing stars. All points on the globe at 44.51N see the same stars doing the same circuit around the North Star. They just see it happening at a different time in the day. This may not be terribly arbitrary as an observation as Astrolabes were constructed referenced to plates representing latitudes of increments of 0.5 degrees around 60 degrees-50 degrees. It was more or less well understood by everyone that the Northern Cross and Capella had a minimum exactly at he Northern Horizon a 44.5 degrees N. This is why I say that OI is uniquely suited for that. If the Money pit is at 44.51 N then it happens to match the Bologna monument that also deals with Cygnus/Northern Cross.

Look at how well Nolan's Cross fits upside down in the Masonic compass sand square. Pay close attention to how the top stone location helps to define points O and P on that image and how they make the arm line through the head stone intersect the square EFGH at O and P. The very interesting observation to make here is that all points on that stem could be point K. That would just scale the upside down Cross (in the yellow) and conserve the fact that the arm end boulders must be on EA and EB. It is therefore possible to scale all this in such a way that O and P coincide with F and G. What sort of juicy coincidence would that produce? Well, it makes point K end up being on the line EH (an altitude) at 0.445 of it's height. That is equivalent to sending you to a latitude of 44.5 N. This is, presumably, part of the message of this geometry. Or is it? lol. When are we sure that geometry is talking to us in physical worldly equivalents. I don't think we know this. We would have to try and tease a meaning out of it. Even if we knew that 44.5N really was 44.51N and that 44.51 was the latitude of the MP location that would still not tell us anything about the locations in terms of the meaning of such a point. One could start saying that to a Freemason such a point should have added "value". So what? How far are we willing to go to give it meaning? When does it stop sayin things, and do we pursue that to the stars above and to the symbolic meaning of the Northern Cross and it's relation to N a his latitude? Do you see how badly we get led down the garden path with elegance?

 

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Regardless of the history and Morris's ties to Freemasons, the illustration of the black cross indicates the simple geometry of Nolan's cross, which aligns 30 degrees to latitude and points with the cross arms, towards the 429 foot stone of the red cross strewn across the money pit area. Nolan's Cross is a template for the money pit area. It is the same distance as the measurements of Nolan's Cross. 429+293=722. 360+360=720.
And the pitch of my roof does matter. If the sun were to have to shine off the very peak every winter solstice the angle would have to be perfect. The angles used are what "they" call the most important. I did not use random measurements to have the illustration align. (90, 60, 45, & 30.) Maybe the Cross needs to be 30 degrees to incorporate the welling pointer and to form the special right triangle and on the 44.51N heading?
I'm just interested in why these points align so well?

On an East West plane on the 44.51N latitude.
A- 90degrees to Nolan's cross cone D; 1442 feet from Cave in shaft
B- 180 feet from A; Aligns 90 degrees with the eye of swamp; Aligns 90degrees to Nolan's cross cone C (left arm); 90degrees to SW corner of swamp
C- 180 feet from B; 360 feet from A; Aligns 90degress to Nolan's cross, cross stone
D- 293 feet from C; Aligns 60degrees to match Nolan's Cross, cross arms: Aligns 90degrees to the North is whatever feeds the swamp
E- 429 feet from D; 722 feet from C; Proposed Money Pit; 90degrees to stone triangle
F- 360 feet from E; Cave in shaft
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What you were given is another stone location 284 feet from the base cone (Amundsen's predicted "Kingdom stone" location which he latter excavated).

That would have to look like 284+292+429+147=1152

1152/720=1.6=8/5 which is the 5th approximation of Phi using the consecutive Fibonacci numbers. Should it matter? 1440/1152=0.8. Coincidence? Not really. This comes out of the regular angles in the Cross.

Lots of people have looked at 147 and decided that this must be 144 for the same reason you point to 1440. There's a perceived elegance in 144 that is not there in 147. I can show high elegance in that point being specifically 147 too. It does not need to be 144 for there to be a regular geometry that fits.

1440 is the sum of the internal angles of a decagon. A decagon has internal center angles of 36 degrees between lines to the vertices. 36 degrees is the start of pentagonal geometry. In pentagonal geometry is the visual representation of Phi. How could this be? Unit polygons are related to other unit polygons in regular fractions. We are going to come up to interesting ratios when we start dealing with points that have projections on the "stem" of Nolan's Cross because of the 26.56, 40, 50, 90 triangle in it.

You end up back to a position where you must ask who on Earth would have been interested in executing a Geometric plan tatt we have evidence for. That's most likely someone who is interested in building a regular framework in order to subdivide it in a way to obtain equal divisions to exploit dynamic symmetry. It makes a hell of a lot of sense for that to be a surveyor rather than a pirate who is doubling as a puzzle maker. Treasure maps don't actually exist. Treasure riddles even less. The only way I can even begin to justify working out to a point is if that point would have a symbolic equivalent in some sort of preexisting geometry that one would want to pay homage to. It would be the geometry that would be the treasure, as opposed to the point. You don't necessarily pay homage to a geometry by burying a treasure. Far from that.

What you are showing is a Cartesian projection scheme that would not have an equivalent before Descartes invented that sort of thing. Projecting to an x-axis is datable to the early 1600s, and not to any time before it. Keep in mind that most of the points you are projecting from are not well defined. The cave in pit is large. The MP position is unknown. The road is not a point. How many reference points are you projecting from to that line? 2? Any two points make a line.