{"id":3054,"date":"2010-06-08T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T10:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2010-06-08T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T10:05:59","slug":"lake-monomonac-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"Lake Monomonac Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to Omniglot sent me these images asking about these mysterious symbols which appear on a map of Lake Monomonac which was found in the attic of a house near the lake. Can any of you recognise and\/or decipher them?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/monomonac1.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"88\" alt=\"Mystery symbols\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/monomonac2.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"249\" alt=\"Mystery symbols\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/monomonac3.gif\" width=\"575\" height=\"203\" alt=\"Mystery symbols\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They look like some form of shorthand to me &#8211; possibly Gregg &#8211; but I can&#8217;t make any sense of them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a transcription of the shorthand, which seems to be the American Benn Pitman version from the mid 19th century:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Surveyed by one of the members of the Monomonack sporting club. The bearings were taken with a pocket compass and \/\/ distances obtained by counting the steps<br \/>\n(2) as measured on the shore at high water mark<br \/>\n(3) including the islands<\/p>\n<p><em>Provided by Beryl Pratt, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk\/\">www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to Omniglot sent me these images asking about these mysterious symbols which appear on a map of Lake Monomonac which was found in the attic of a house near the lake. Can any of you recognise and\/or decipher them? They look like some form of shorthand to me &#8211; possibly Gregg &#8211; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-puzzles","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}