London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 679
6Gi Notice of Two Rocking-Chairs. that inclination. This allowance is to reduce the length of linesmeasured over sloping or undulating ground, to the length of thebase, or level line, and is necessary in every survey, as the baseof the land, and not the surface, is to be computed.Worcester, Oct.… … States, when on a tour in that country in the summer of 1838 ;and he then made the sketches from which Jigs. 288, 289. havebeen engraved. The chairs are made just high enough in theback to reach up to the back part of the head of the personsitting in them, so as to enable him to rest his head on it…
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