PLANE SURVEYING 



3.00 



By WILLIAM G. RAYMOND, C. E., member Ameri- 

 can Society of Civil Engineers, Professor of Geodesy, 

 Road Engineering, and Topographical Drawing in 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 



IN this manual for the study and practice of surveying the 

 subject is presented in a clear and thorough manner; the 

 general method is given first and afterward the details. 

 Special points of difficulty have been dwelt on wherever 

 necessary. The book can be mastered by any student who 

 has completed trigonometry, two formulas only being given, 

 the derivation of which requires a further knowledge. The 

 use of these is, however, explained with sufficient fullness. 

 ^| In addition to the matter usual to a full treatment of land, 

 topographical, hydrographical, and mine surveying, par- 

 ticular attention is given to system in office-work, labor-saving 

 devices, the planimeter, slide-rule, diagrams, etc., coordinate 

 methods, and the practical difficulties encountered by the 

 young surveyor. An appendix gives a large number of 

 original problems and illustrative examples. 

 ^[ The first part describes the principal instruments and deals 

 with the elementary operations of surveying, such as measure- 

 ment of lines, leveling, determination of direction and measure- 

 ment of angles, stadia measurements, methods of computing 

 land surveys, etc. 



^[ In the second part are treated general surveying methods, 

 including land surveys, methods adapted to farm surveys, 

 United States public land surveys, and city survey s, curves, 

 topographical surveying, ordinary earthwork computations, 

 hydrographic and mine surveying, etc. 



^j Both four-place and five-place tables are provided. They 

 are unusually numerous and practical, and are set in large, 

 clear type. The illustrations are particularly helpful. 



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