System of Geometry and Trigonometry: Together with a Treatise on Surveying; Teaching Various Ways of Taking the Survey of a Field; Also to Protract the Same and Find the Area; Likewise, Rectangular Surveying; Or, an Accurate Method of Calculating the Area

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Excerpt from System of Geometry and Trigonometry: Together With a Treatise on Surveying; Teaching Various Ways of Taking the Survey of a Field; Also to Protract the Same and Find the Area; Likewise, Rectangular Surveying; Or, an Accurate Method of Calculating the Area of Any Field Arithmetically, Without

Part third contains sundry Problems and Rules for dividing Land and determining the true Course and Distance of dividing Lines, or from one part of a Field to another. To this is added an Appendix concerning the Variation of the Compass and Attraction of the Needle; also, a Rule to find the difference between the present Variation, and that at a time when a Tract was formerly surveyed, in order to trace or run out the original lines.

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