PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



Demy 8vo., price 3*. 6rf., by post 3s. 9<f., Illustrated with several Diagrams. 

 THE 



PRACTICAL SURVEYOR : 



A TREATISE UPON SURVEYING. 



SPECIALLY ARRANGED FOR THE GUIDANCE OF PUPILS, STEWARDS, 

 THE SCHOLASTIC PROFESSION, AND INTENDING EMIGRANTS. 



BY THOMAS HOLLOWAY. 



CONTENTS. 



:. The Man and his Outfit. 

 II. The Chain Cautions to Be- 

 ginners Best Figure for Chain 

 Surveying. 



III. Boundaries. 



IV. Setting-out Lines by the Eye and 



passing Obstructions. 

 V. Division of the Circle and Use of 

 Box Sextant Chain Angles 

 Condemned Cross Staff Con- 

 demnedThe Optical Square 

 Measuring Inaccessible Dis- 

 tances. 



VI. The Theodolite Setting-out 



Lines with the Theodolite. 

 VII. Reduction of the Measure of Un- 

 dulating Ground to Horizontal 

 Measures and Table of Vertical 

 Angles. 



VIII. Measuring Lines The Offset 

 Staff and taking Offsets. 



IX. To prove the Correctness of Ob- 

 servations taken with the Sex- 

 tantSingle Fields Measured 

 with the Chain and Optical 

 Square, so that the Areas can 

 be directly Calculated. 

 X. To Set-out a Bight Angle with 

 the Chain Figures of the Lines 

 of Measurement best adapted 

 to Irregular Fields 



XI. Equalising Boundaries, and 

 Drawing a Triangle equal to a 

 given Figure. 



XII. Computation of Areas of Irre- 

 gular Fields. 



XIII. Example of a Survey of several 

 Fields together, and the Field 

 Book. 



XIV. Reference Numbers to Maps 

 To put Detached Buildings 

 In correct Positions on a Plan 

 by Means of Unmeasured 

 Lines Lines Measured on 

 the Work Making Stations. 

 XV. Plotting Selection and Ma- 

 nagement of Paper Inking 

 In. 



XVI. Surveys made for the purpose 

 of Dividing Land Into Stated 

 Quantities. 

 XVII. Setting-out Allotments and 



Building Plots. 



XVIII. Angles and Bearings, and Use 

 and Adjustment of Circular 

 Protractor. 



XIX. Traverse Surveys. 

 XX. Trespass. 



XXI. Quality Lines Superstructures 

 and Works Underground 

 Harvest and Coppice Work 

 Reducing Plans from a 

 Large Plan to a Small One. 

 XXII. To Copy a Map Colouring, 



Penmanship, Ac. 



XXIII. Commencement of a Parish 

 Survey Surveying to a Scale 

 of Feet. 



XXIV. Town Surveying. 

 XXV. Testing the Accuracy of a 



Survey General Remarks. 

 XXVI. In Memory of the Past. 



Price 6d. t by post Id. ; or 2s. 6d. the half-dozen. 



"THE FIELD" DUPLICATE JUDGING BOOK 



Facilitates the work of the Judges at Poultry and other Shows, by a very simple 

 method of entering and preserving a duplicate judging list. 



THE FIELD" OFFICE, 346, STRAND, w.c. 



