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PRACTICAL SURVEYING

FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS
AND MINE SURVEYORS.

Demy 8vo, 532 pages, cloth, price Ios. 6d. net. SURVEYING AS PRACTISED BY CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. Including the Setting-Out of Works for Construction and Surveys Abroad, with many Examples taken from Actual Practice. A Handbook for use in the Field and the Office, intended also as a Text-Book for Students. By JOHN WHITELAW, Jun., A.M.Inst.C.E. Edition. With about 260 Illustrations.

Fifth

"This work is written with admirable lucidity, and will certainly be found of distinct value both to students and to those engaged in actual practice." -The Builder.

"Is well adapted to meet the requirements of the student of engineering and the modern surveyor." The Engineer.

Large crown 8vo, 380 pages, cloth, price 7s. 6d. net. LAND AND MINING SURVEYING.

As applied to Collieries and other Mines. For
Students, Colliery Officials, and Mine Surveyors.
By GEORGE LIONEL LESTON. Second edition,

revised. With 207 Illustrations and 3 folding Plates. "Suitable in every way for the purpose of preparation for examinations, besides at the same time supplying a useful handbook for those interested in colliery surveying both on the surface and underground." The Times.

LONDON: CROSBY LOCKWOOD & SON.

PRACTICAL SURVEYING

A TEXT-BOOK FOR

STUDENTS PREPARING FOR EXAMINATIONS OR

FOR SURVEY WORK IN THE COLONIES

BY

GEORGE WM. USILL, ASSOC.-M. INST.C.E.

REVISED BY

GEO. LIONEL LESTON

MINING ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR
AUTHOR OF "LAND AND MINING SURVEYING"

Twelfth Edition

WITH FOUR LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES
AND THREE-HUNDRED-AND-SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS

of

Capio Lumen

LONDON

CROSBY LOCKWOOD

AND SON

7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL

and 5, BROADWAY, WESTMINSTER

1920

95987

TAS45
112

PRINTED BY

WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED

LONDON AND BECCLES

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IN submitting this little work to the Public, I take the opportunity of saying a few words in explanation of my object in compiling it.

My experience during several years past in delivering courses of lectures on Surveying and kindred subjects, and in preparing gentlemen for the Colonies, has shown me that, however excellent and comprehensive many existing text-books may be, they are in some points not sufficiently explicit nor in others sufficiently concise to enable the student, especially in cases of self-instruction, to grasp with readiness the subjects of which they treat. A textbook of somewhat different character seems, therefore, to be called for.

In the present work I have endeavoured to make each chapter complete in itself, and to let the chapters follow in progressive order.

I have also considered it better to explain the various instruments required in Surveying and their adjustment, before proceeding to describe their use and manipulation in the field. I follow then with a chapter devoted to a graphic treatment of Trigonometry as applied to Surveying ; and the several succeeding chapters are intended to briefly explain the modus operandi of Theodolite Surveying, Traversing, Town Surveying, Levelling, Contouring, Setting

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