Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 180
A G D, and afterwardshave divided the bafe G D in I, according to the given Of Dividing Lands. 157 given proportion; this will appear plainer by thefollowing example: Suppofe a field, containing 27 acres, is to be di-vided between three men, each to have 9 acres,and the lines of divifion to run… … the figure divided into five triangles; meafure eachof thefe, and put their contents down feverally, ^Perches. The whole content is 4320 perches, or 27 acres,and each mans proportional part 1440 perches. From which reduce into ,rAIB Triangle < CD U per<o 0 o0 o .rllCb BlCDEA , and [ n you \*…
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