This textbook is a course in surveying. Showing by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the plain-table, theodolite, or circumferentor, or by the chain only. How to protract, cast up, reduce and divide the same. Likewise, an easy method of protracting observations made with the meridian, and how to cast up the content of any plot of land, by reducing any multangular figure to one triangle. It includes an appendix showing how to draw buildings in perspective, of levelling, and also how to measure standing timber.