A treatise on surveying, comprising the theory and the practice ; (1887)
Gillespie, W. M. (William Mitchell), 1816-1868, Staley, Cady, 1840- [from old catalog] ed · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 297
lar to A B, it may bemade so by giving and taking, or as in the article followingthis one. The same method may be applied to land of any number ofdifferent qualities ; and a combination of this method with thepreceding problems will solve any case which may occur. H. Straightening Cbooked Fences.… … the method given in Art. 70, by which the irregular figure 1...2...3...4...5 is reduced to the equivalent triangle 1...5...3, and thestraight line 5...3 therefore parts off the same quantity of land oneither side as did the crooked one. The distance from 1 to 3, asfound on the plat, can then be set…
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