PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



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Demp Bvo.y price 3s. Sc?,, by post 35. 9d, Illustrated with several Diagrams. 

 THE 



PRACTICAL SURVEYOR : 



A TEEATISE UPON SURYETING, 



SPECIALLY AHEANGED FOE THE GUIDANCE OF PUPILS, STEWAEDB 

 THE SCHOLASTIC PEOPESSION, AND INTENDING EMIGEANTS. 



By THOMAS HOLLOWAY. 



Chap. 

 T.- 

 II.- 



COMTTENTE 



Chap. 

 XIIL- 



III, 

 IV. 



v.— : 



TI 

 TIL- 



Tin.. 



IX.. 



XI 

 XII.- 



■The Man and his Outfit. 

 ■The Chain — Cautions to Be- 

 ginners — Beet Figure for Chain 

 Surveying. 

 ■BoundarieB. 

 Setting-out LineB hy the Eye and 



passing Obstructions. 

 ■Division of the Circle and Use of 

 Box Sextant — Chain Angles 

 Condemned— Cross Staff Con- 

 demned — The Optical Square — 

 Measuring Inaccessible Dis- 

 tances. 

 ■The Theodolite — Setting-out 

 Lines with the Theodolite. 

 — Eeduction of the Measure of 

 Undulating Ground to Hori- 

 zontal Measures and Table of 

 Vertical Angles. 

 , — Measuring Lines — The Offset 



Staff and Taking Offsets. 

 -To Prove the Correctness of 

 Observations taken with the 

 Sextant — Single Fields Mea- 

 sured with the Chain and Opti- 

 cal Square, so that the Areas 

 can be directly Calculated. 

 -To Set-out a Eight Angle with 

 the Chain — Figures of the Lines 

 of Measurement best adapted 

 to Irregular Fields. 

 -Equalising Boundaries, and 

 Drawing a Triangle equal to a 

 given Figure. 

 ■Computation of Arrears of 

 Irregular Fields. 



XV.. 

 XVI.- 



XVIL. 

 XVIIL- 



XIS.- 

 XX.- 

 XXI.- 



XXIL- 

 XXIIL- 



XXIV.- 

 XXV.- 



XXVI.—: 



-Example of a Survey of several 

 Fields together, and the 

 Field Book. 



-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; 



-Plotting— Selection and Man- 

 agement of Paper— Inking in. 



-Surveys made for the purpose 

 of Dividing Land into Stated 

 Quantities. 



-Setting-out Allotments and 

 Building Plots. 



-Angles and Bearings, and use 

 and Adjustment of Circular 

 Protractor. 



-Traverse Surveys. 



-Trespass. 



-Quality Lines — Superstruc- 

 tures and Works Under- 

 ground — Harvest and Cop- 

 pice Work— Reducings Plans 

 from a Large Plan to a 

 Small One. 



-To Copy a Map — Colouring, 

 Penmanship, &c. 



-Commencement of a Parish 

 Survey — Surveying to a 

 Scale of Feet. 



■Town Surveying. 



■Testing the Accuracy of a 

 Survey— General Remarks. 



In Memory of the Past. 



In crown Svo., price 3s. Bd., by post 3s. 9d. 



ANGLING REMINISCENCES. 



By the late FRANCIS FRANCIS, 



CONTENTS.— A GhristmaB Eetrospect; Lucki Loeli Tay ; The Angler's Wisll 

 Spring Salmon Fishing; Grayling Fishing ; Barbel Fishing; Cover Shooting 

 Fly Fishing tor Ladies; Saint Mayfly; My First Salmon; The Mayfly Mess 

 A Month in the "West ; Trout Fishing ; In and Out Dales ; Up and Down 

 Tom Bowers's Christmas. 



' THE FIEIiD " OITICE, BBBAM'S BTJILDINGS, LONDON, E.C. 



