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Geodaesia improved; or, a new and correct method of surveying made exceeding easy in two parts : part I. Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any quantity of land both accessible and inaccessible, whether meadows, pasture, fields, woods, water, commons, forests, manors, &c. by the chain only, whose dimensions are cast up by the pen, and consequently freed from the errors of estimation that unavoidably attend the scale and protractor. With necessary directions to map elegantly : part II. Introduces instruments, trigonometry, preparative remarks on the earth's superficies; and teacheth the invaluable method of casting up the dimensions of instruments by the pen several ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. : with a most useful appendix concerning the practical methods of measuring timber, hay'marl pits, bricklayers and plasterers work... / A. Burn
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faying, as the Amount of the Land Tax, is to the Area ofthe Common or Ground to be inclosed, so is each Man’s parti-cular fax, to his respective Share of the Common whichshould be so inclosed or laid out; so that each Division or Share,may adjoin with its peculiar Estate.

PROP. II,

Teacheth to lay out an assigned Quantity of Land in a Fieldwherein, first, the Quantity is given : Secondly, the Length orBreadth must be found to obtain the other: Thus, if the Areaof the given Quantity be divided by the Length of the Field, theQuotient will be the Breadth required; but if you are confinedto a particular Breadth, the proposed Quantity must be dividedby the fame, and the Quotient will be the Length thereof.

Example.

Suppose a Farmer lets an Acre of Meadowing to be laid outin one Side of a Field that is 24 Chains, 27 Links long, I de-mand the Breadth of the said Acre therein.

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24.27

4

Poles 97.08 ) 160.009708

62920

58248

46720

39832

68880

67956

4)1.647

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Answer, 41 Links andnearly a Half.

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