A Rudimentary Treatise on Land and Engineering Surveying: With All the Modern Improvements

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J. Weale, 1850 - 218 sider
 

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Side 84 - Therefore all the interior angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
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Side 9 - L. of © 5, &c., denote that the following lines are measured to the right of station 2, and to the left of station 5, respectively. To SURVEY WITH THE CHAIN AND CROSS. An acre of land is equal to 10 square chains, that is 10 chains in length and one in breadth, or 1000 links in length and 100 in breadth ; an acre, therefore, contains 100,000 square links, as per table of square measure below. Hence the contents in square links are, in the following examples, divided by 100,000, or what is the same...
Side 54 - ... beginning of this division, or zero point, a distance equal to one of the subdivisions. Now divide the extent, thus set off, into ten equal parts, marking the divisions on the opposite side of the divided line to the strokes marking the primary divisions and the subdivisions ; and number them 1, 2, 3, &c., backwards from right to left. Then, since the extent of eleven subdivisions has been divided into ten equal parts, so that these ten parts exceed by one subdivision the extent of ten subdivisions,...
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