Topographic Surveying: Including Geographic, Exploratory, and Military Mapping, With Hints on Camping, Emergency Surgery, and Photography (Classic Reprint)

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This book has been prepared with a view of bringing together in one volume the data essential to a comprehensive knowledge of topographic surveying. It has been my aim to cover the varied phases of all classes of surveys which are made with a view to representing on maps information rela tive to the features of the earth's surface. The methods elaborated are chiefly those which have been developed in recent years by the great government surveying organiza tions and by such few private corporations as have kept in touch with the most modern practice; but I have endeavored to go beyond these, and, guided by personal experience, to adapt them to'the most detailed topographic as well as to the crudest exploratory surveys. The hope is entertained, therefore, that the engineer who may be called upon to con duct an exploratory survey in an unknown region, or to make a detailed topographic map as a preliminary to construction, will find herein descriptions and examples of the methods he should employ, the essential tables for the computation of his results, and hints which will guide in the equipment of his party.

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