Practical Geodesy: Comprising Chain Surveying, and the Use of Surveying Instruments; Levelling, and Tracing of Contours; Together with Trigonometrical Colonial Mining and Maritime Surveying

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J. W. Parker and son, 1855 - Surveying - 272 pages
 

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