One plantation, two maps, five fairly intelligent undergraduates. The problem was simple – find the major error and answer the following questions. Yet it took many long nights and still more drained Starbucks cups for the group to satisfactorily solve the problem of Barrow’s plantation. Such efforts must not go unrecorded, lest some other foolhardy folks find themselves as lost as this team did.
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[1] Scribner's monthly, an illustrated magnizine for the people./ Volume 21, Issue 5, March 1881
[2] Nation of Nations. E. Barrosse. Boston, McGraw Hill: 139.