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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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more Accuracy ; the Situation of which being limited, andyour Chain at Liberty to execute and perform the particular Di-mensions thereof; Directions for taking up the fame would belooked upon as Tautology by all those who are perfect in the fore-going Chapters, and therefore whoever is not ready thciein, willgain very little by the Perusal of this Example, But to proceed.

5. Having advanced on the Main line 20 Chains, count andreturn the measuring Pins ; and on the next, viz. at 20 Chains,10 Links, a Wall in aright Line with the House Front, is metwith, thus entered ; L. H. 20.10 4- Wall, Pleasure Ground .40 ;and to the further Side of the Road, 1 Chain, which shews theRoad to be 60 Links broad; fee the fame entered in the Field

Book, thus, R H. 20.10-——o, with Regard to the Fold,

Garden, &c. To find the Area of which, consult the 8th Ar-ticle, Page 216.

6. Your Foreman having stuck down a Pin in Pleasure Ground,and standing thereat, 'et the Chain be stretched on the Groundto that Part of the Wall where it crested; then at 20 Chains,25 Links, you’ll find a Perpendicular will arise to the SouthWest Corner of the Garden, which being measured and entered,return to the standing Pin (but remember you have begun a thirdChange-,) continue the Main line, and on 23Chains, 80 Links,a Perpendicular will arise to the Mark left at C, in the South Cornerof Ox-pasture; fee the Field Notes thereof thus entered, L. H,

23.80 - 1.42 and 23.80-j- Road to mark in Ox-pasture

2.16; return and proceed at 24 Chains, crofi funk Fence, re-presented by o q ; and at 27 Chains, 12 Links, on the Main-line, raise and measure a Perpendicular on the Left-hand Sidethereof, which being entered, come back to the standing Pins,and chain forward, and on 29 Chains, 30 Links, raise and mea-sure a Perpendicular on the Right hand to the West Corner ofPleasure Ground; this done, continue the Main-line, and at 30Chains, 4 Links, the fame is ended, where there is a Perpendi-cular on the Left-hand — 2 Chains, 92 Links, upon whichlies an Off set upon an Off-set, viz.

2.92 — — - —.96

This last measured and entered, walk to the West Side of PleasureGround, and between the two last Right hand Perpendiculars

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