Re: MtMan-List: direction again

[Glenn Darilek <llsi@texas.net>]

http://roadmaps.lycos.com:90/cgi-bin/mqcustomconnect?screen=find&link=map&city=Eddy&state=MT&orig_lat=475583&orig_lng=-1151322&orig_name=Eddy&lat=475583&lng=-1151322&orig_icon_on=1&orig_search=1&orig_iconid=2&level=7&event=zoom

shows Eddy, Montana on the right bank, looking _downstream_, of Clark
Fork

Iron Burner

Rkleinx2@aol.com wrote:
> 
> . . .   What caused me to ask was
> this line from Dale Morgan's  1953 book 'Jedediah Smith' in which Morgan
> states....
> "The Hudson's Bay Company's advance base, Flathead Post, was situated on the
> right bank of Clark's Fork at present Eddy".

> So the question remains.... when one writes /says that something is on a
> particular side of a river, is he looking upstream or downstream?