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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Difference between the Objects in view in the Survey of a Cultivated

and that of a new Unsettled Country.-First Operations.—Preliminary Ex-

ploration.-Objects to be principally considered.-Sites of Townships.—

Main Lines of Communication.-Guides for marking on the Ground the

Divisions of Properties.-Size of these Divisions.-Precautions to be ob-

served to secure to the Public Rights of Road, &c.-Necessity for Extensive

Surveys on the First Settlement of a New Colony.-Deviations from Gene-

ral Rules in laying out Sections.-Frontages on, and Access to Rivers and

Main Roads. Sectional Roads.—Monopoly of Water to be guarded against.

-Sections laid out in Broken Irregular Ground.-Statistical and other In-

formation to be fully afforded to Settlers.-Marking Boundaries of Sec-

tions and Roads.—Reservation of Rights of Road.-Natural Features of

Ground.-Geological and Mineralogical Specimens, and Meteorological

Register, &c.-Usual Method of marking Regular Figures upon the Ground.

-Necessity for a Triangulation to conduct these Operations with any degree .

of accuracy when upon an extended Scale.-Advantage of Carrying it on

rather in advance of the Sectional Surveys.-Other Uses of the Triangula-

tion.-District Surveyors.-Surveying by Contract.-Rate of Progress and

Cost per Acre of the Sectional Survey and Marking out Roads.-Cost of

the Triangulation.-Method of Survey pursued in the Canterbury Settle-

ment, New Zealand.-Temporary Division of Land for pastoral Purposes.

-Territorial Division of Counties, Hundreds, &c.—Remarks on Exploring

Expeditions.-Method of Proceeding.—Objects in View, and collateral In-

formation to be obtained

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IV. TO FIND THE LOCAL TIME.

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