A treatise on land-surveying; comprising the theory developed from five elementary principles; and the practice with the chain alone, the compass, the transit, the theodolite, the plane table, &c. Illustrated by four hundred engravings, and a magnetic chart (1875)
Gillespie, W. M. (William Mitchell), 1816-1868 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 162
takenthe bearings of all the streets issuing from it, measure all these lineswith the chain, taking offsets to all the corners of streets, lanes,benduigs, or windings ; and to all remarkable objects, as churches,markets, pubUc buildings, &c. Then remove the instrument tothe next street, take… … In the description of laud conveyed, the rule i^, that known and fixed mon*Qinents control courses and distances. So, the certainty of metes and bounds willinclude and pass all the lands within them, though they vary (rom the ^venquantity expressed in the deed. In New-York, to remove, deface or…
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