 ... busy ourselves with the geographical material furnished by these surveys. In the first place, the entire unavailability of the system for mountainous regions is to be noticed. The lines cannot be run with a compass and measured with a chain with even...  Geographical and Geological Surveys - Stran 39avtor: Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1875 - 96 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1875 - 106 strani
...with a compass and measured with a chain with even a rude approach to accuracy, except in a region which is, at least, moderately level. This is shown...reading in a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the head of this department of the government business, that the guide meridians and standard... | |
 | Mary C. Rabbitt - 1979 - 786 strani
...said, to "the defective and even fradulent character of portions of the less important details" but to "the principal meridians, by which the rest of the work is co-ordinated," parts of which were miles away from where they ought to be. Whitney attributed to King the improvement... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1875 - 500 strani
...with a compass and measured with a chain with even a rude approach to accuracy, except in a region which is, at least, moderately level. This is shown...reading in a report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the head of this department of the government business, that the guide meridians and standard... | |
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