PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



Demy 8vo., price 35. 6d., by post 35. gd., Illustrated 'with several Diagrams. 



THE 



PRACTICAL SURVEYOR: 



A TREATISE UPON SURVEYING. 



SPECIALLY ARRANGED FOR THE GUIDANCE OF PUPILS, 



STEWARDS, THE SCHOLASTIC PROFESSION, AND 



INTENDING EMIGRANTS. 



By THOMAS HOLLOWAY. 



COZtsTTEItTTS. 



CHAP. I CHAP. 



I. The Man and his Outfit. XIII. Example of a Survey of several Fields 



II. The Chain Cautions to Beginners Best together, and the Field Book. 



Figure for Chain Surveying. XIV. Reference Numbers to Maps To put 



Detached Buildings in correct Positions 



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on a Plan by Means of Unmeasured 

 Lines Lines Measured on the Work 

 Making Stations. 

 XV. Plotting Selection and Management of 



Paper Inking In. 

 XVI. Surveys made for the purpose of Dividing 



III. Boundaries. 



IV. Setting-out Lines by the Eye and passing 



Obstructions. 

 V. Division of the Circle and Use of Box 



Sextant Chain Angles Condemned Cross 



Staff Condemned The Optical Square- 

 Measuring Inaccessible Distances. 



VI. The Theodolite Setting-out Lines with the Land into Stated Quantities. 



Theodolite. 1 XVII. Setting-out Allotments and Building Plots. 



VII Reduction of the Measure of Undulating ' XVIII. Angles and Bearings, and Use and Adjust- 



Ground to Horizontal Measures and Table ment of Circular Protractor. 



of Vertical Angles. XIX. Traverse Surveys. 



VIII. Measuring Lines The Offset Staff and XX. Trespass. 



taking Offsets. XXL Quality Lines Superstructures and Works 



IX. To Prove the Correctness of Observations ' Underground Harvest and Coppice 



taken with the Sextant Single Fields I Work Reducing Plans from a Large 



Measured with the Chain and Optical | Plan to a Small One. 



Square, so that the Areas can be directly I XXII. To Copy a Map Colouring, Penmanship, 



Calculated. &c. 



X. To Set-out a Right Angle with the Chain XXIII. Commencement of a Parish Survey Sur- 



Figures of the Lines of Measurement best veying to a Scale of Feet. 



adapted to Irregular Fields. ! XXIV. Town Surveying. 



XL Equalising Boundaries, and Drawing a '. XXV. Testing the Accuracy of a Survey General 



Triangle equal to a given Figure. Remarks. 



XII. Computation of Arrears of Irregular Fields. XXVI. In Memory of the Past. 



Price is., by post, is. id. 



A Plea for the Improvement of Old Turf, Better Systems of Grassing-down, and the 

 Prolonged Tenure of Alternate Husbandry Grass Layers. 



By JOSEPH DARBY. 



In crown 8vo., with Thirteen full-page Plates, price 2s. 6d., by post 2s. gd. 



The Swimming Instructor : 



A TREATISE ON THE ARTS OF SWIMMING 

 AND DIVING. 



By WILLIAM WILSON, 



Author of " Swimming, Diving, and How to Save Life," " The Bather's Manual," 

 " Hints on Swimming." 



" THE FIELD " OFFICE, 346, STRAND, W.C. 



