Excerpt from A Manual for Practical Surveyors: Containing Methods Indispensably Necessary for Actual Field Operations The want of a work on Practical Survey ing has been long felt, and is generally ad knowledged. The numerous publications on surveying would seem to preclude the neces sity of anything new. But upon examina tion we find the wants of the student have been consulted, rather than those of the prac tical man. Indeed, many of the publications in general use appear to have been written by those who were engaged in the instruction of youth, and who were unacquainted with the practical part of surveying, excepting perhaps so far as may have been requisite for the information of the classes under their direction. 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.