A system of geometry and trigonometry, with a treatise on surveying; in which the principles of rectangular surveying, without plotting, are explained (1835)
Flint, Abel, 1765-1825, Gillet, George · Hartford, Belknap & Hamersley; New York, Cooke & Co. · leaf 76
SURVEYING When the given base is so sitn^ated that a perpendicular of suffi*cient length cannot be erectedtherefrom, continue the base asfrom B to D, Fig. 65> from whicherect the perpendicular DC, andcomplete the triangle ABC, whichwill contain 100 acres. Fig. 65 … PAST IXI. DIVIDING LAND. AS difierent fields are so variously, and many of them ir-t-egularly shaped, and as they are required to be divided inmany difterent proportions, it is difficult to give rules whicliwill apply to particular cases. The business of dividing landmust therefore be left, in a…
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