| Basil Jackson - 1847 - 410 pages
...horizontal dimensions of its features ; as territorial boundaries, lakes, rivers, forests, roads, &c. "Accurate surveys of a country are universally admitted...invasions of an enemy in time of war; in which last circumstance, their importance usually becomes the most apparent. Hence, it happens, that if a country... | |
| Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - 1851 - 826 pages
...approaches in accuracy to a regular survey, in proportion to the time and labor that is bestowed upon it. " Accurate surveys of a country are universally admitted...invasions of an enemy in time of war ; in which last circumstance their importance usually becomes the most apparent. Hence, it happens that if a country... | |
| Joseph Ellison Portlock - 1869 - 348 pages
...that " Accurate surveys of a country are invariably admitted to be works of great public utility, by affording the surest foundation for almost every kind...against the invasions of an enemy in time of war." And hence it is that the difficulties experienced in war from a want of accurate maps, and a consequent... | |
| John Gascoigne - 1998 - 264 pages
...State by emphasising not only the scientific advantages of the project but also the fact that it was 'of great public utility, as affording the surest...defence, against the invasions of an enemy in time of war'.30 The project involved collaboration between the Royal Society and two separate arms of government:... | |
| Miles Ogborn, Charles W. J. Withers - 2004 - 242 pages
...Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1785. He noted that: 'Accurate surveys of a country are works of great public utility, as affording the surest...against the invasions of an enemy in time of war.' Surveying was a route to economic progress and military power. It was a means of turning knowledge... | |
| 362 pages
...foreigner as yet understood either the effect or the manufacture of Henry Shrapnell's invention.2 ' Accurate surveys of a country are universally admitted...public utility, as affording the surest foundation of almost every kind of internal improvement in time of peace, and the best means of forming judicious... | |
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