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" Longitudes of points are measured, or reckoned. The distance which one end of a line is due North or South of the other end, is called the Difference of Latitude of the two ends of the line ; or its Nortldng or Southing ; or simply its Latitude. "
A Treatise on Land Surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five ... - Page 169
by William Mitchell Gillespie - 1855 - 524 pages
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A Treatise on Land-surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five ...

William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1870 - 552 pages
...the Magnetic Meridian, ie the direction in -which the Magnetic Needle points, is the line from \vhich the Longitudes of points are measured, or reckoned....end, is called the Difference of Latitude of the two enda of the line ; or its Northing or Southing ; or simply its Latitude. The distance -which one end...
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A Treatise on Land-surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five ...

Surveying - 1878 - 534 pages
...Latitude" or line running East or West. The LONGITUDE of a point is its distance East or West of some "Meridian" or line running North and South. In Compass-Surveying,...end, is called the Difference of Latitude of the two enda af the line; or its Northing or Southing ; or simply its Latitude. The distance which one end...
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A Treatise on Land-surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five ...

William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1880 - 540 pages
...Latitude" or line running East or West. The LONGITUDE of a point is its distance East or West of some "Meridian" or line running North and South. In Compass.Surveying,...Difference of Latitude of the two ends of the line ; or its Nortldng or Southing ; or simply its Latitude. The distance which one end of the line is due East or...
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Decisions of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Volume 1; Volume 7

Nova Scotia. Supreme Court, John Morris Geldert, James Macdonald Oxley - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 568 pages
...meridian, ie, the direction in which the magnetic needle points is the line from which the longitude of points are measured or reckoned. The distance which...difference of latitude of the two ends of the line." And in the case relied on by Mr. Blanchard, from the same book, p. 20S, where the north line of a large...
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A Treatise on Mine-surveying

Bennett Hooper Brough - Mine surveying - 1888 - 366 pages
...point may be defined as its distance north or south of some parallel of latitude. The distance that one end of a line is due north or south of the other end, is called the difference of latitude of the ends of the line, or, briefly, the latitude of the line, or its northing or southing. Similarly the...
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A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice, Volume 1

William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1896 - 592 pages
...distance east or west of some " Meridian," or line running north and south. In compass. surveying, the magnetic meridian — ie, the direction in which...Latitude of the two ends of the line; or its northing or xouthimj ; or simply its latitude. The distance which one end of the line is due east or west of the...
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A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice, Volume 1

William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1897 - 618 pages
...compass. surveying, the magnetic meridian—ie, the direction in which the magnetic needle points—is the line from which the longitudes of points are measured...latitude. The distance which one end of the line is due cs1st or west of the other is here called the Difference of Longitude of Che two ends of the line;...
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A Textbook on Surveying and Mapping ...: Arithmetic, formulas, geometry and ...

International Correspondence Schools - Surveying - 1898 - 518 pages
...north and south. The meridian from which the longitude of a point is reckoned is the magnetic meridian. The distance which one end of a line is due north or south of the other end is called the latitude of that line. The distance which one end of a line is due east or west of the other end is...
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Surveying, land surveying, mapping, railroad location, railroad construction ...

International Correspondence Schools - Civil engineering - 1899 - 814 pages
...north and south. The meridian from which the longitude of a point is reckoned is the magnetic meridian. The distance which one end of a line is due north or south of the other end is called the latitude of that line. The distance which one end of a line is due east or west of the other end is...
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The Elements of Civil Engineering: Prepared for Students of the ..., Volume 3

International Correspondence Schools - Civil engineering - 1899 - 798 pages
...north and south. The meridian from which the longitude of a point is reckoned is the magnetic meridian. The distance which one end of a line is due north or south of the other end is called the latitude of that line. The distance which one end of a line is due east or west of the other end is...
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