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
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… … ning a guess-line, A C, Fig. 303, across the bends of the fencewhich crooks from A to B, measuring offsets to the bends on each DIVIDING UP LAND. 283 side of the guess-line, and calculating their content. If the sumsof these areas on each side of A 0 chanced to be equal, that wouldbe the line…
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