The Ordnance Survey of the Kingdom: Its Objects, Mode of Execution, History, and Present ConditionEdward Stanford, 1873 - 77 pages |
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Page 9 - ... being that scale in nature which will permit of representing accurately the width of a road and the dimensions of a building. More recently on the Continent the expression " cadastral survey " is applied to a plan from which the area of land may be computed and from which its revenue may be valued.
Page 33 - Valentia (Ireland) to the Ural mountains, it was not possible " to execute so vast an undertaking as that which is now in " progress. It is, in fact, a work which could not possibly " have been executed at any earlier period in the history "of the world. The exact determination of the Figure and " Dimensions of the Earth has been...