Excerpt from The Coffee-Planter, or an Essay on the Cultivation and Manufacturing of That Article of West-India Produce<br><br>The first Object, in beginning to line a piece, is to establish your two primary lines at right angles to each other. This done, the person who holds the end Of the chain or line at A, moves it to the second picquet at D, and the person holding the other end measures with his rod the distance from B towards E, and strains his line from D to E along which the liner, as in the line A B, plants his picquets; and thus proceeds with each succeed ing line or row, till the piece is completed.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.