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LAN

THE US

PRA

Author

ARCI

A RUDIMENTARY TREATISE

ON

LAND AND ENGINEERING

SURVEYING,

WITH ALL THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS

ARRANGED FOR

THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE STUDENTS,

ALSO FOR

PRACTICAL LAND SURVEYORS
AND ENGINEERS.

IN TWO PARTS.

With Illustrations.

homas

BY

T. BAKER, C.E.,

Author of "Levelling and Theodolite Surveying," in the Ninth Edition
of Nesbit's Surveying, "Railway Engineering," "Integration
of Differentials," &c., &c.

London:

JOHN WEALE,

ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, 59, HIGH HOLBorn.

MDCCCL.

To Survey with the Chain and Cross

Tables of Linear and Square Measure

Problems I. to VII. on Surveying by the Chain and Cross

CHAPTER III.

Land Surveying by the Chain only

Preliminary Problems-Prob. I. To erect a Perpendicular with the Chain ibid

Prob. II. and III. To measure lines obstructed by ponds, buildings, &c. .

Prob. IV. To find the width of a river, which is too wide to be reached

across by the chain (a new method)

Prob. V. Triangular Fields.-Methods of measuring and computing their

areas.-Method of casting, &c.

Prob. VI. Four sided Fields

Prob. VII. Fields having more than four sides.-Several examples of

expeditiously measuring Fields of this kind.--Defects of old

methods

Prob. VIII. To survey Woods, Lakes, &c.

Prob. IX. To survey a small estate, divided internally by straight

fences, with a new and concise method of proving the true position

of straight fences without measuring their lengths

The method of measuring hilly ground

The use of the Parallel Ruler in reducing crooked fences to straight ones

Surveying large estates or parishes by the Chain only

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