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>rtant. If the proprietor think fit to send the agriculturist 

 to carry out any suggestions made, his recommendations 

 and calculations will he most satisfactory in a separate form. 



III. FIELD DUTIES. 



The first duty of the valuator is to examine the lands to 

 be viewed in connexion with the map of the same, so that 

 he may be enabled to make those accurate observations on 

 which future calculations depend. 



In order to this, he should understand the scale on 

 which the map is constructed, and if a doubt at any time 

 arise as to the corresponding position on the map with 

 that he occupies on the ground, it may, perhaps, be ascer- 

 tained by slipping the number of perches indicated by the 

 scale from some obvious pos ; tion, to that which is doubtful. 



If there be a marked difference in the quality of the 

 soil, indicated by natural boundaries, not shown on the 

 map, as where a rising ground or turf-bog separates arable 

 land from a portion not capable of equal cultivation, the 

 line of demarcation should be traced as accurately as pos- 

 sible on the map, and the subdivisions so made should be 

 lettered on the spot, and entered in the field book. 



To accomplish the subdivision, the valuator should take 

 his stand at some point on the land which is distinctly 

 observed upon the map, and so convenient to the line of 

 change in the quality of the land, that it can be distinctly 

 traced with the eye through the whole, or greater part of 

 its length. From this point he must look to some object 

 at the further end of the line, such as a tree, or house, or 

 fence, likewise apparent on the map, and between the two 

 he can draw such a line, either direct or otherwise, as ap- 

 pears to him most accurate. The calculation of the areas 

 within these lines can be made in the house from the map, 

 and entered in column No. 5. 



The whole of a contiguous tract, as two or three town- 

 lands lying in one range, and similarly circumstanced, 

 should be viewed before the valuator attach the price to 



