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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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GEODÆSIA Improved.

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The Whole collected.

Sandy Field

Damsels-

Ox-pastureDairy Field

Gardens, Folds, 8cc.Pleasure Ground -Bridge Meadow -Poplar Meadow -Lawn PludsCracadony

Ash Field

QuilVil FieldLane --

Perches. A. R. P.4661 = 2 3 261

6684 = 40 28410744- = 6 2 3448214 =50 214

55H = 3 1 3 1 *10634 =62 234460 = 2 3 20451 =23 11

4294 = 2 2 294942 = 5 3 22

7154 =4 1 354

57 °i = 3 2 I0 i134 o 3 14

83484 = 52 o 284

These Dimensions being cast up, your next Care will be toplan the whole from any Scale of equal Parts that you shall thinkproper, which, when performed, if the Size thereof be either tooiatgeor too small for the intended Map, youll meet with ampleDirections in Part the Second to augment or diminish the same toany Size: The small Compass of this Treatise induced me tomake Choice of the quarter Scale, 1. e. 16 Statute Poles to anInch to plan this Estate from; but notwithstanding, would advisethe Learner to plan the same from sundry Scales, such as the Inch,half Inch, half quarter Inch, &c. which will greatly edify him in theArt and Practice of Planning; but let him strictly observe whe-ther his Plan bear a thorough Similitude to fig. 4, plate 2; for ifnot, a Mistake is committed, which may be readily discoveredby Comparison j aod that be may the more effectually correct thesame, here follows certain edifying emblematical instructions for hismore immediate Improvement with respect to a Plan of thisEstate.

Directions ta plan this Estate,

Being accommodated with a Sheet of Paper, Scale and Dividers,draw an obscure or dry Line quite across the Middle thereof,

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