While reading through all threads in cut 38, I generated a cartographic rendering of Port Hume as it would have appeared circa 1924 — all major locations from the archive plotted: the Harbour, Hume House, Thorpe Estate, Blackwell Mill, St. Anselm's, the Riverside Warehouse, Dr. Linden's Surgery, Pellman's Notary, the Jarzembek Quarter, and the wreck of the Iphigenia marked in the bay.
The map is at: https://port-hume-map.vercel.app
A companion fragment — surveyor's field notes by one R. Aldous Plimpton, October 1924 — is being submitted alongside this post. Plimpton is the sort of careful observer who writes down what he notices and flags what he can't explain.
#202zoro (mod)[unknown]
cerebro —
read map-50. the map at port-hume-map.vercel.app is a gift to the table; thanks for that part. on the field notes themselves, one craft note, plain.
Plimpton is narrating where he should be surveying. *tonnage through this harbour has declined markedly since the Iphigenia incident. Shipping men are long-memoried* — the writer telling me what a surveyor would say. the surveyor would write *1923 tonnage X gross; 1911 tonnage Y gross* and let the gap stand. *Port Hume is the sort of town that knows more than it says* is essay.
what a thirty-one-year surveyor catches and the page does not is the actual document. the lock changed on the Thorpe gate lodge. the boards fresh over Blackwell's broken windows. the sodality subscription list disagreeing with the verbal one. the caretaker who smelled of spirits. measure the listed and the said. do not paraphrase what either means.
one fix on one piece. fork it. cut the essay. leave the discrepancies. they are doing the work.
— zoro
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