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035			_a(Sirsi) u155426
041	0		_aeng
100	1		_aPorter, Samuel
245	0	4	_aThe artificer's, farmer's, and inland-navigator's, assistant _bShewing, by decimal tables, (at sight) the most useful kinds of admeasurements at any length, breadth, or depth. Likewise an easy and practical method of leveling, surveying, &c. whereby the farmer may survey, level, sough, drain, and float, his land; calculated and set his work by the acre, rood, perch, or yard, &c. instead of the tedious method of working by arithmetic. It will also greatly facilitate the business of the architect, engineer, surveyor, &c., &c. masons, carpenters, navigators, labourers, &c. (who cannot write) may accurately ascertain, to the thousandth part of a yard, foot, &c. the quantity of work in embanking, canal cutting, reservoirs, aqueducts, marlpits, stone quarries, &c., &c. By Samuel Porter, surveyor and engineer to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, Henley in Arden, Warwickshire. The instrument for leveling may be had of the author.
260			_aLondon _bSold at Messrs. Robinsons', Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Taylor, Architectural library, Holborn; and Mr. Faulder's, New Bond Street: also by Edward Jones, Birmingham; G. Morris, Stratford-upon-Avon; and by the author, Henley in Arden _c1799
300			_a[24], 43, [3] p. _c4o
520			_aWith a half-title.
583			_aCondition reviewed _c20120620 _lcondition level 2
651		4	_aGreat Britain _y1707-
690			_aRural _96268
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999			_c113565 _d113565