for Gardeners, &:c. 121 



Example. 



Suppofe the Trapezium ABC D,containirig 

 124 Acres, 3 Roods, and 8 PerchcF, is to be 

 divided between two Men ^ the firft to have 

 50 Acres, 7 Roods, and 3 Perches ^ the other, 

 74 Acres^ 1 Rood, and 5 Perches 5 and the 

 Line of Divifion to proceed from B. Firft, 

 reduce all the Acres and Roods into Perches ^ 

 then will the Content of the Trapezium be 

 19968 Perches 5 the firft Man's Share 8083 

 Perches, the fecond Man's 11885. Secondly, 

 meafure the Bafe of the Triangle, viz. 70 

 Chains no Links: Then fay, If 19968, the 

 whole Content, give for its Bafe 78 Chains 

 no Links, what ftiali 8083, the firft Man*s 

 Part, give? Anfwer, 31 Chains, 52 Links, 

 which fet off from A to F, and drawing the 

 Line F B,you divide the Trapezium as defir'd ^ 

 the Triangle A B F being the firft Man's Por- 

 jion, and the Trapezium 13 C F D the fecond s* 



How to reduce a Trapez,2um into a Triangle^ by 

 Lines drawn from a fointaffignd in any Side 

 thereof. 



A B C D (Fig. 5 of the next Plate) is the 

 Trapezium ^ Ethe Point affign'd,from whence 

 to reduce it into a Triangle, and run the Di- 

 vifion-Linc,the Trapezium is of the fame Con- 

 tent as the former, viz, 19968 Perches 5 and 

 \\ is tp be divided as before, vi^. one Man to 



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