Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 147
o cafl up the EXAMPLE. In the triangle A, the bafe a b is 10 chains,^ o links; the perpendi-* cular c b, 13 chains, 70links: the half of whichis 6 chains, 85 links;which multiplied by 10chains, oo links, facit6(85000 ; from whichcutting off five figures,there is left 6 acres. Thenmultiplying the… … ration. 6, 85 10,00 Acres—-6185000 4 Roods 3(40000 40 Perches—161oocoo So Contents of a Plot of Land. 125 So like wife in the triangle B, the bafe c d is 10chains, and the perpendicular a b 13 chains, 70links; which multiplied by half the bafe, will givethe fame content. Alfo in the triangle C, if…
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