Oak Island Family by Lee Lamb

Author:Lee Lamb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2012-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

18 W and by 7 E on Rock

30 SW. 14 N Tree

7 by 8 by 4

On Oak Island, two hand-drilled white granite stones had been discovered. One had been found by Blair near the Money Pit, and years later another had been found by Hedden near the shore at Smith’s Cove. It was believed that they were part of the pirates’ original work.

The hand-drilled, white granite stone at Smith’s Cove. It had a twin near the Money Pit.

Hedden applied the legend to Oak Island, and when he drew a line between the two granite rocks, they were exactly on an east–west line. When he measured 18 rods west of one rock and 7 rods east of the other rock, he came to the Cave-In Pit. (A rod is an old English country measurement. One rod = 5.0292 metres.) When he drew a line southwest from the Cave-In Pit, and measured 30 rods, he arrived at the stone triangle. From the baseline of the triangle, he measured 14 rods to the north, and found himself at the Money Pit. The measurements on Oak Island fit the legend precisely!

Although no one could figure out what the last line of the legend — “7 by 8 by 4” —corresponded to, the map and its legend caused quite a stir.

When Gilbert Hedden went to England to see this original map and to try to purchase it, he got an unhappy surprise. The author of the book told Hedden that there was no original map. He had drawn the map himself by blending details from several maps he had seen of an island in the China Sea. He said that the map’s legend and measurements had come entirely from his imagination.

Incredible!

While my family was on Oak Island, they located the two granite hand-drilled stones. Dad and Bobby verified for themselves the accuracy of the measurements between the granite stones, the Cave-In Pit, the stone triangle, and the Money Pit, and used the measurements again and again as their base as they tried to determine the logical location for the sea water inlet tunnel or the “walk-in tunnel,” which earlier searchers had imagined existed to allow the pirates to retrieve their treasure without triggering their own booby traps.

Through the years there have been countless maps that supposedly had a connection to Oak Island, but none of them proved more helpful than the map that was, from what we’ve been told, a total fake.

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