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FIELD INSTRUMENTS.

The outfit of instruments for field-work in surveying, levelling
and location contains transits and levels of various approved makes,
compasses, hand-levels and clinometers, a plane-table, a sextant,
mercurial and aneroid barometers, a current-meter, a hook gauge, a
solar transit, and the usual provision of rods, chains, tapes, and like
accessories. Instruction is given to all students in the accurate testing
and adjustment of the standard instruments, and in their use for the
solution of all the ordinary field problems. In addition they are taught
and practised in simple but accurate methods for locating the True
Meridian, and for determining Latitude, Time, and Longitude. Students
of Civil Engineering execute more extended surveys for the location of
roads, railways, hydraulic works, and so on.