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<span style="color:#FF0000">'''South Base, San Clemente Island '''</span>, California, | <span style="color:#FF0000">'''South Base, San Clemente Island '''</span>, California, [[GREENWELL, William E.|William E. Greenwell]], 1860; [[FORNEY, Stehman|Stehman Forney]], 1878.—The San Clemente Island base lies along a level stretch of land at the northwest end of the island, about 3 ¾ miles from the extreme northwest point, and south by west from Wilsons Cove, on the southern face of the island and midway from shore to shore. In 1860 each end of the base was marked by a red sandstone monument, with the letters U.S.C.S. in the top, surrounded by four redwood stubs with copper tacks in the tops, ranging north, south, east and west, and equidistant from the center. In 1878 the sandstone monument was found and left undisturbed, and reference stakes and stones were placed as described in note 3, page 615, except the stakes around the center stone were pine. [[Annual Report of the Director, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, 1904] | ||
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South Base, San Clemente Island , California, William E. Greenwell, 1860; Stehman Forney, 1878.—The San Clemente Island base lies along a level stretch of land at the northwest end of the island, about 3 ¾ miles from the extreme northwest point, and south by west from Wilsons Cove, on the southern face of the island and midway from shore to shore. In 1860 each end of the base was marked by a red sandstone monument, with the letters U.S.C.S. in the top, surrounded by four redwood stubs with copper tacks in the tops, ranging north, south, east and west, and equidistant from the center. In 1878 the sandstone monument was found and left undisturbed, and reference stakes and stones were placed as described in note 3, page 615, except the stakes around the center stone were pine. [[Annual Report of the Director, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, 1904]
