Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 132
fome, I have, at the end ofthis book, added a table; wherein, by infpection,you may find the longitude and latitude of everyline, according to the angle which it makes withthe meridian. Another way of plotting the foregoing piece ofground according to the table in the field-book,with regard to the… … line, as from A to o i, viz. 27 chains, 99 links;then taking with your cornpaiTes the weftings of thefame line, viz. 3 chains, 43 links; fet one foot inO i, and with the other defcribe the arch a a j nexttake the length of your firft line, as you find it inthe field-book, viz. 28 chains, 20 links;…
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