Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 122
as at n. Meafure the diftance o i n,and take the oft-fet from n to the hedge. Then atn turn the fixed fights of the inftrumcnt to o j, andby that direction proceed on the line till you cometo an angle. ttis way of furveying is made eafier (though I cannotfay truer) by taking only a great jquare in… … fquare fo, that, if poffible, you may, from the fides thereof, go upon a perpendicular line to any of the angles. But if that cannot be, then perpendicular H 2 lines ioo Divers Ways to take the Plots of Fields. lines to the fides may do as weil, as you fee here,15 and 76 are. To begin, therefore,…
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