Norm, Looks like "Chessie"  to me (cf. "Nessie" the Loch Ness monster).
  Is Hudson Creek the home of the Volvo Round-the-World racing team and
its entry, named "Chessie" with a similar logo along her hull?

Likely just a figment of some illustrator's imagination, born out of
wearines late one evening, though I've heard that map-makers sometimes
include patently ridiculous names/symbols in obscure places, just as a
trap for someone infringing on their copyright by illegally photcopying
their work and claiming any similarities were only coincidence.

Several years back the Michigan State Highway map contained, in a half
inch of selvage just south of the border in Ohio, two fictional towns:
"Goblu" and  "Beatosu" - - names of some significance to certain grads
of a well-known school in Ann Arbor.

Leo Weigant

>>>  9/30/04 1:49:50 PM >>>

If you have the DeLorme Maryland/Delaware Atlas & Gazetteer handy, see
if
you can answer this question for me.

On Map 39, lower right corner of the page, is Hudson Creek, flowing
into
the Little Choptank River.  In a bay of Hudson Creek, just south of
the
town of Seabreeze, is a map symbol I have to say I've never noticed
before
on any map.  The symbol does not appear on DeLorme's map legend,
either.

I'm assuming the symbol is a joke, but why there?  Does it appear
anywhere
else in this atlas?  In any others?

Best,
Norm

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Norm Saunders
West Ocean City and Colesville, MD