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" ... draw lines of direction along those streets, using two men as marks, or poles set in wooden pedestals, or perhaps some remarkable places in the houses at the farther ends, as windows, doors, corners... "
A Treatise on Land-surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five ... - Page 155
by William Mitchell Gillespie - 1856 - 464 pages
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Mathematics: Compiled from the Best Authors and Intended to be the ..., Volume 2

Mathematics - 1801 - 658 pages
...convenient also re lave a chain 50 feet long, divided into 50 links, and an offset staff io feet long. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal streets, through which you can have the longest prospect?, to get the longest station lines. There having fixed the instrument, tlraw lines of direction...
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A Course of Mathematics in Two Volumes for the Use of Academies as Well as ...

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...a chain 50 feet long, divided into 50 links of one foot each, and an offset-staff of 10 feet long. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal streets, through which we can have the longest prospects, to get the longest station-lines : there having fixed the instrument,...
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Mathematics: Compiled from the Best Authors, and Intended to be ..., Volume 2

Samuel Webber - Mathematics - 1808 - 520 pages
...convenient also to have a chain 50 feet long, divided into 50 links, and an offset staff 10 feet long. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal...through which you can have the longest prospects, to get the longest station lines. There having fixed the instrument, draw lines of direction along...
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A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the ...

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 494 pages
...a chain 50 feet long, divided into 50 links of one foot each, and an offset-staff of 10 feet long. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal streets, through which we can have the longest prospects,. to get the longest station-lines : there having fixed the instrument,...
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The complete measurer: or, The whole art of measuring, containing the ...

Thomas Keith - 1817 - 306 pages
...convenient than the common surveying chain, and an f.iTtet-staff of 10 feet long will be very useful. Begin at the meeting of two, or more, of the principal streets, ilirouiih which you can have the most extensive view, anil consequently the longest station•lines....
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies, as Well as Private ...

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...a chain 50 feet long, divided into 50 links of one foot each, and an offset- staff of 10 feet long. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal streets, through which we can have the longest prospects, to get the longest station-lines : there having fixed the instrument,...
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A Popular Course of Pure and Mixed Mathematics ...: With Tables of ...

Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...convenient than the common surveying chain, and an off-set staff of ten feet long will be very useful. Begin at the meeting of two, or more, of the principal streets, through which you can have the most extensive view, and consequently the longest station-lines. Having fixed your instrument at this...
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as ..., Volume 1

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 632 pages
...chain 50 feet lorig, divided into 50 links of one foot each, and an offset-staff <;f 10 feet long. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal...through which you can have the longest prospects, to get the longest station- lines : there having fixed the in. struinent, draw lines of direction along...
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as ..., Volume 1

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 660 pages
...a chain 50 feet long, divided into 50 links of one foot each, and an offset-staff <.f 10 feet long. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal streets, through which you cnn have the longest prospect?, to get the longest station lines : there having fixed the in. ut ruinent,...
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A treatise on practical geometry, mensuration, conic sections, gauging, and ...

Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1834 - 370 pages
...convenient than the common surveying chain, and au off-set staff of 10 feet long will be very useful. Begin at the meeting of two or more of the principal...through which you can have the longest prospects, to get the longest station lines. There having fixed the instruments, draw lines of direction along...
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