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THE

THEORY and PRACTICE

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GAUGING.

Demonftrated in a

SHORT and EASY MET HOD.

CONTAINING, among other PARTICULARS,
The Method of Computing Decimally; extracting the
SQUARE ROOT, with the Conftruction and Use of
the SLIDING-RULE explain'd at large.

The Elementary Properties of the CONIC SECTIONS, and
the Manner of describing them in Plano.

General Principles of MENSURATION, with Theorems
for Measuring all right-lin'd Planes, Parallelopipedons, Prif-
matic Solids, the Conic Sections, Conoids, Spindles, their
Segments, and Fruftums, &c.

General Propofition for measuring the Hoofs or Ungula's
of any CONE or PYRAMID; and a new Method for
Measuring by Approximation.

With the APPLICATION of the preceeding Principles to
Practice; and illuftrated throughout by particular Examples.

Published with the particular Approbation of the
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Defign'd for the Ufe of the Officers of that Revenue.

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Within that Part of Great-Britain call'd
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