for Gardeners, S^c. 123 



If in dividing the Plott of a FielJy there be out- 

 -i ward Angles^ you may change them ajter the 

 I, following Manner. 



Suppofe A B C D E (Fig. 7 of the next 

 Plate) be the Plot of a Field, and B the oat- 

 ward x\ngle, draw the Line C A, and paral- 

 lel thereto the Line B F. Laftly, the Line 

 CFfliall be of as much more Force as the 

 Lines CB and B A^ fo is that live fid ed Fi- 

 gure, having one outward Angle, reduc'd into 

 j afour^fidediFigure^ior Trapezium 5 which you 

 may again reduce into a Triangle, as has been 

 before taught, k-u; 

 f • ,V /■ : 



How to divide an irregular Plot^ of any 'Eum" 

 I; {her of Sides ^ according to any given trooor- 

 "ir t'lWs by a flrait Lir\£ thro' it. ' 



.)A B C D E F G H I (Fig. 7 of the nextPIate^ 

 is a Field to be divided between 2 Men, equal 

 Halfs. by a flrait Line proceeding from A. 

 Firft^ confider how to divide the Field into 

 tive-fided Figures, and Trapezia, thatyoumay 

 the better reduce ir into Triangles : As by 

 drawing the Line K L, you cut off the five- 

 fided Figure, A B C H I, which reduce into 

 the Triangle A K L, and meafuring half the 

 Bafe thereof, which will fall at (1, draw the 

 Line CLx\. 



Secondly^ Draw the Line M N, and from 

 the Point QLreduce the Trapezium^ C D G H, 



into 



x-^ 



