The Surveyor, Volumes 9-10

Front Cover
1896 - Surveying

From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 155 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 19 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 106 - ... soil in the half of the road or the half of the bed of the river, which would otherwise pass to the purchaser of the piece of land abutting on the road or river. There may be facts, whether appearing on the face of the conveyance or not, from which It is justly inferred that it was not the intention of the parties that the general presumption should apply...
Page 125 - ... heads. Disliking to abandon our new line, which had been selected with much care and at great expense, I determined to employ in its measurement a reflecting instrument, used very successfully by the United States Coast Survey. I therefore directed my assistants to procure me a " HELIOTROPE," but after being annoyed by having brought to me successively a sweet-smelling shrub of that name and a box of " Lubin's Extract" to select from, it was finally ascertained that no such instrument could be...
Page 123 - February 15, 1855. It having been definitely determined that the great Railroad, connecting the City of San Francisco with the head of navigation on Mission Creek, should be constructed without unnecessary delay, a large appropriation ($120,000) was granted, for the purpose of causing thorough military examinations to be made of the proposed routes. The routes which had principally attracted the attention of the public were "the Northern...
Page 11 - If a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Page 154 - Dr. Bigguns on this occasion may be found worthy of record. An omnibus, passing during the time of observation, was driven carelessly near our Sidereal Clock, with which it almost came into contact. Dr. Bigguns, with a slight smile, remarked that " the clock was nearly run down," and immediately fainted away. The pursuits of science cannot be delayed by accidents of this nature, two of the workmen removed our unfortunate friend, at once, to the Orphan Asylum, where, having rung the bell, they left...
Page 11 - Triangles and parallelograms of the same altitude are to one another as their bases.
Page 125 - Saucelito by the solution of a mean of 1,867,434,926,465 triangles, being determined to be exactly three hundred and twenty-four feet. This result differed very much from our preconceived ideas and from the popular opinion ; the distance being generally supposed to be some ten miles ; but I will stake my professional reputation on the accuracy of our work, and there can, of course, be no disputing the elucidations of science, or facts demonstrated by mathematical process, however incredible they...
Page 106 - you may look at the surrounding circumstances, but only to see whether there were facts existing at the time of the conveyance, and known to both parties, which showed that it was the intention of the vendor to do something which made it necessary for him to retain the soil...

Bibliographic information