Excerpt from A Treatise of Practical Surveying: Which Is Demonstrated From Its First Principles; Wherein Every Thing That Is Useful and Curious in That Art, Is Fully Considered and Explained It is a matter of fome wonder, that though furveying appears to have been the firfilot at Leafi one of lthe'firfl of the ma thematical fciences, that the rel't have met with much greater improvements from the pens Of the molt eminent mathematicians, while this feems to have been neglected; infomuch that I have not been able'to meet with one author, who has fulficiently ex plained the whole art in its theory and practice: mw, it has been treat ed Of ina'prae'tical manner only and the few who have undertaken the theory, have in a great meature omitted the practice, Thefe confiderations induced me to at tempt a methodical, eafy, and clear courfe of Surveying, how far I have fucceeded in it, Inuit be, determined by the impartial reader: the fleps I have taken to render the whole evident and familiar are as follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.