The “spring check” in 2019 will be the last of the regular formal checks at this location; hereafter, we will visit only when we are informed in a log or personal e-mail that maintenance is needed - so please keep us informed!
Although this is not a "restin'" cache per se, it is in a cemetery so please be respectful and please seek it only during the daylight hours.
Some of the History
The first Roman Catholic priest to visit this area was the Rev. Father Crowley, an elderly Irishman, who came to Canada in 1825. He received from the government 200 acres of land which was to help settlement. Near the spot to which you are being led by the given co-ordinates, on the bank of the river, a house was built for storing settlers’ effects; the spot became known as “The Priest’s Landing.” Father Crowley retired in poor health in 1832 and died at Rochester, New York in 1835.
To quote from an old document, a “trail called ‘the middle line,’ which ran from Cobourg through Peterborough and Omemee, ended at the ‘Landing,’ and from here on the settlers who had entered by this route proceeded by canoe. An early pioneer has declared that the scenery along the Scugog was exceedingly beautiful. The bright ribbon of water wound to and fro through a majestic forest that towered high above it. No human devastation had disfigured that quiet avenue among the primeval pines. The ugliness of waste and destruction and decay had not yet blighted it. Even the lowest banks were soft with beaver meadows, and wild rose blossoms rioted at the water's edge.”
At Stage One
You will recognize the heading on the plaque; ignore the other plaque . . . except that it is very interesting to read. Use the text of the plaque to which you were led to calculate the co-ordinates of the cache itself. Do not use the three words in the heading in your counting! “18th” is considered to be one word..
1. What is the number of letters in the twelfth word? A B = __ __.
2. What is the number of different consonants used in the fourteenth word? C = __.
3. What is the number of different vowels used in the thirty-second word? D = __.
4. What is the number of syllables in the forty-seventh word? E = __.
Calculating the Co-ordinates of the Cache
Remember that: (A)(B) means A multiplied by B and (A + B)/(C - D) means the sum of A and B divided by the difference between C and D
The co-ordinates of the final are:
N 44° 20.jkm and W 078° 43.npq where the unknown letters can be calculated as follows:
(A = __; B = __; C = __; D = __; E = __).
j = D/E = ___; k = B - A = ___; m = (B)(D)/E = ___;
n = D + C - B = ___; p = (E)(D) - (A + B + C) = ___; q = C + A = ___.
Thus the co-ordinates are:
N 44° 20.__ __ __’ and W 078° 43.__ __ __’.
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