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This can't just be an American happenstance can it?

• caymanjim 8y ago
  The magnetic drift affects the entire globe. Whether the phenomenon exists elsewhere depends on how common building walls along magnetic compass lines has historically been. I wouldn't be surprised if it were more prevalent in colonial America. Much of Eurasia was divided up earlier, and much of the rest of the world later. This is pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if the window of "compass-driven surveying" was brief. Likely the author just focused on his neighborhood, though.
  • Ericson2314 8y ago
    There are presumably other colonies where prior property boundaries, if they existed, we're ignored.