TREATING OF CONTRIVANCE 



out the way the trees should stand when planted, 

 as at fig. 5. 



But if the ground be unequal, cause the stake- 

 setter hold up a long straight pole (with a plumb- 

 rule for holding it perpendicular), and when he re- 

 moves, thrust a stake exactly where the pole stood ; 

 but if the pole will not do, let the viewers mount 

 them on three-footed or standing ladders ; and if 

 that will not do, betake yourself to the rule, men- 

 tioned in the last chapter, for taking a line over a 

 hill, where both ends are confined, as I have done 

 in the like case. 



But because some scarcely know signals, the 

 stake-setter must be told that, when the viewer 

 stands with his face northwards, and waves his 

 right hand eastwards, he must go a little eastward 

 with his pole ; and when he waves the left, then 

 westward ; when both his hands point at once east 

 or west, then he must hold the head of the pole so, 

 if he have no plumb for his direction ; but when the 

 viewer moves both hands, or hat, up and down, then 

 the stake-setter must fix there. 



If you plant the second way in a squair, where 

 the out-line round is not at equal distances, tho' the 

 opposite sides are ; here, in this example, one side 



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