for Gardeners, &c. ^-9 



\ Of the me/ifzinng of fuperjicial Pl^^s* 



• In the Courfe of this Chapter, k will be 



■proper to fliew the Method of meafuring all 



.Sorts of fuperficial Figures 5 not fo iluich for 



'i^3 not being known,asfor a Remembtfapce to 



all that pradife Gardening 5 fincethefeThings, 



in a Multiplicity of Bufinefs, areapttb' flip 



out of any Body *s Mind. ^ 'V- 



Now, it mufl be con(ider*d, th^t ih^ Gfai:- 

 -dening, we have Occafion to take andcaft ilp 

 . thefe Dimenfions two VVays 5. firft, ifi'rhe g^e- 

 neral Survey of a Landfkip in Chains', Fetcfes, 

 ^c. and them into Acres ^ and, in a fmaller 

 Account, when thofe Figures are in Grafs 

 PJats, into Feet and Inches, and from thence 

 into Yards or Perches. Of both thefe Ways 

 I (hail give Examples. ' 



E X A M P L E L 



Of a Square a7id ParaHelogrmn in large hand- 

 Meafure^ Fig, a^^ ^^ fiate'2:^. - ^'Rf'^>H 



Let A be a true Square, each Side being 

 10 Chains o Links/ Multiply- tO' ChaMs o 

 Links, by 10 Chains o Links, and the Sum 

 is lo'ooooo^ /from whidh' cut -^ffth^- five 

 laft Figures, and there remain juft x^^Ac^s 

 for the Square. 



P 4 Again, 



