Agricultural surveying: a practical treatise

SCOTT'S FARM ENGINEERING TEXTBOOKS
AGRICULTURAL SURVEYING
A PRACTICAL TREATISE
ON
LAND SURVEYING, LEVELLING, AND SETTING-OUT; AND
ON MEASURING AND ESTIMATING QUANTITIES,
WEIGHTS, AND VALUES OF MATERIALS,
PRODUCE, STOCK, ETC. ETC.
By JOHN SCOTT
LONDON
CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND 00.
7 STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL
1884
CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE
I. Land Surveying 1
II. Instruments used in Chain Surveying ... 3
III. On noting the Measurements 9
IV. Plotting a Chain Survey 14
V. Calculating the Content 21
VI. Methods oe Chain Surveying 33
VII. Surveying with the Theodolite .... 63
VIII. Levelling 67
IX. United States Public Lands Surveys ... 83
X. Laying out Land 96
IX. Estimating Weight, Quantity, and Values . . 103
XII. Weights and Measures 120
Index 127-----------This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized
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