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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 369

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An indefinite number of problems on this subject might be proposed, but they would be matters of curiosity rather than of utility,and exercises in Geometry and Trigonometry rather than in Sur-veying ; and the youngest student will find his life too short foreven the hastiest survey of merely the… … ^BlThLY ajMtLYH.SI. PART XII. THE PUBLIC LANDSOF THE UNITED STATES. (560) Geueral systenii The Public Lands of the United Statesof America are generally divided and laid out into squares, theBides of which run truly North and South, or East and West. This is effected by means of Meridian lines and…

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