On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Janice McDonald wrote: > Interesting >> that the Spanish tack in the old lithos looks like the tack in the old >> Peruvian lithos, complete with the breeching that evolved into the >> modern retrancas. >> > > was ponce de leon from Peru? Oh my bad, good lord if ms hathaway from > the third grade knew I would ever not remember where ponce de leon was > from she would have my degrees pulled and burned. I work near a > little town named Ponce De Leon.... there is a spring there. They > say Ponce De Leon found it looking for the fabled fountain of youth > that brought him here...
Silly <g> -- the early south American explorers, like Pizarro, came from the same area/culture as Ponce de Leon. Vero Beach has got a supposed Fountain of Youth too -- or at least there was such a tourist attraction when my family drove through in the 1950's. Was awful! It was sulphur water -- you had to *really* want to stay youthful to drink that stuff! Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/ http://www.dslextreme.com/~napha/HighPoint/
