Excerpt from Practical Geodesy: Comprising Chain Surveying and the Use of Surveying Instruments, Levelling and Tracing of Contours, Together With Sanitary Surveys of Towns, Trigonometrical Colonial Mining and Maritime Surveying<br><br>Proceeding through the elementary processes, the student is brought, by regular gradations, to understand the principles, and to appreciate the bearings of the more perfect methods which the demands of an advanced state of civilisation render it necessary to employ, in order to ensure that de gree of accuracy which is now deemed essential.<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.