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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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2zo GEODÆStA Improved.

slenderest Capacity, to proceed therein for Miles upon the likeOccasion ; fee the Dimensions of this Main-line in the Field Book}tut observe, in crossing the Fence into Lawn-pluds, to leave aMark thereat, and when you have finished the Line, returnthereto, measure and enter the Dimensions of the South WeftPart of the same. (See the Directions given in the third Article,Page 214.)

8. Make for the East Side of the Estate, and chain anotherMain-line from the South Corner of Cracadony,to the NorthWestCorner of Quistil Field, viz. from r, to M, whereon take tipso many Perpendiculars, &c. on the Right and Left-hand Side,as will include the Area of all the Fields which that Main-linepafleth through, as you may fee in the Field Book, wherein theDimensions of the same are carefully entered, and correctly castup, according to the foregoing Directions.

Lasly , Step into Quistil Field, which you measure by chaininga Line from M in the South Corner thereof, to b, the NorthCorner, at which Place a Mark was left when Sandy Field wassurveyed; and upon this Line, take up the Perpendiculars thatshall occur on the Right and Left-hand Sides, which beingfinished, concludes the Survey,

Abbreviated Characters in the Field Book explained.

-j- H, or h, 1 s Cross Hedge,

Hea Gd. f denotes< Pleasure Ground.

Fd. - J 4 Field.

BuQ f Buildings.

< ^-denotesCorner of a Field.

M^J l.Mark, ice. &c.

Note, The above Cross should be made when in the Field*, by-two Stroke* of the Pen like the Character Pins.

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