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Genesis of Caching. Lesson 1&2 Mystery Cache

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A cache by Syn Message this owner
Hidden : 5/17/2002
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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THIS CACHE CAN BE HUNTED DAY OR NIGHT/ ALTHOUGH IT IS EASIER TO LOCATE AT NIGHT. ABOVE COORDINATES ARE NOT THE COORDINATES TO THE CACHE. This is a nightime themed cache. Luckily no logs contained hints. There were a couple of notes that had hints and the math formula to solve. I have deleted those. Any future logs giving any hints away (other than famous people buried there) or any mathematical formulas, will be deleted without any notice.

First Coordinates Go to the following page and choose flash version.

Next box that comes up, click on gps in lower left corner of the box.

Then move the "your signal line to match the sattellite"s signal.

Next a box will pop up SxT=D

Plug in the following numbers 11669 in the first box

Plug in the following number 3 into the second box.

You will have a number automatically generated from this.

What word does it spell? (look at it from a different angle).

Take the total letters in the word?_____(A)

B=A-1

C=A+4

Coordinates are as follows
45.17.BAC

Second Coordinates are in a puzzle:

You are looking for the name of something and it is two words.

There was a series of virulent epidemics that struck the Northeastern United States in the early 1800's that forced reform. Miasma was then a most dreaded word, characterizing the invisible but lethal vapors rising from decomposing organic matter, thought to cause all kinds of epidemics.

In 1882, a killer epidemic of yellow fever took the lives of 16,000 New Yorkers in less than a month.

Meanwhile, Boston and Philadelphia were having the same problems. While New York solved its problem in Brooklyn by building the third one ever created. Philadelphia constructed the second one ever created.

Which Brings us to the original one.

Massachuetts pioneered the entire reform movement by turning a harvard student picnic ground, known as Stones Wood's.

This place is the first one of its kind not connected to a church or a parish (Even though Religious institutions are now prevalent in it today). It became the model for all of its kinds after it, and also became a paradign for the concept of the municipal park.

It was founded during the administration of Andrew Jackson, and the person behind its conception was New England's foremost botanist at the time, Dr. Jacob Bigelow. As a physician, Bigelow was able to assess the public health threat that all of the dead plagued different cities with. Where there was a vacant lot was now filled with the dead, some with graves only inches deep, this only served to make Bigelow determined for a solution.

In 1825, Bigelow found a parcel stretching 72 acres along the Charles River. The wooded forest offered immensely variegated vegetation and topography: Gentle Hills, shallow valleys, labyrinthine paths, serpentine streams, and the lands summit towered 125 feet above the Charles, with majesctic views of Cambridge, Harvard and Boston's spires.

People, crowded in the city with nowhere to go, came here. They brang their families here for picnics, and people brang dates here (even though you would be viewed as a wierdo today if you did this). Visiting dignitaries came from all over the world, poets, politicians, actors, actresses and authors all flocked to behold the beauty of this place.

Even the future 14th President: Franklin Pierce, did not attend the Democratic nominating convention in Boston in 1852. He was instead strolling through this place. When there was a deadlock between 3 Presidential Candidates-James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, and Stephen A. Douglas--Pierce was selected as the compromise choice. Efforts to locate him throughout Boston proved futile until a messenger, on a tip, found the next President seated under a shade tree beside an Egyptianate sepulcher in this place.

The total number of the letters in the first word of the name?

(x)______

The total number of the letters in the second word of the name?

(Y)______

Z=X+3

QQ=X+Y+11

Coordinates are as follows:

122.24.ZQQ

Now this will take you somewhere that is unmistakable but is not the cache you are looking for. From here go to the other end of a huge log and shine your flashlight and follow the reflectors.

I have posted a couple of pictures in this place. Feel free to post pictures that you find either on the internet or of ones of you actually visiting this place.(although it is far far away). Also, as a added bonus. Feel free to post in your log a famous person that is buried there. (there are hundreds).

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Yvxr V fnvq tb gb raq bs uhtr snyyra ybt naq sbyybj gur ersyrpgbef jvgu lbhe synfuyvtug.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)