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750. Field Surveying. [Newcomb and Assistants.]

9 hours a week.

This course supplements 700, Plane Surveying, and consumes three
afternoons a week throughout the Spring Term of the Freshman year.
The student is taught the use of the Chain, Tape, Compass, Level, Transit,
Stadia, and Plane Table. The parallel work in the drawing-room (652)
consists in making Computations, Scale Drawings, Profiles, and Contoured
Maps from notes taken in the field. (Spring.)