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C. Plane Surveying and Levelling.

• Lecture I. Construction and Adjustment of the Level. Differential
  Levelling. Keeping the Field-notes.

• II. Profile Levelling. Establishment of Grades and of
  Vertical Curves. Construction of Profiles.

• III. Construction and Adjustment of the Compass. Traversing,
  Keeping the Field-notes.

• IV. Balancing the Compass Survey by Latitudes and Departures.
  Platting the Survey.

• V. Computation of Areas from the Field Notes. Determination
  of Areas from Plats.

• VI. Construction and Adjustment of the Transit. Keeping
  the Field-notes in Transit work.

• VII. Running the Preliminary Line. Construction of the
  Plat and the Profile.

• VIII. Locating Circular Curves on the Map and in the Field.
  Keeping the Field-notes.

• IX. Cross-Sectioning and Slope-Staking. Preliminary estimates
  of Earth-work.

Each lecture has an associated exercise in the field or in the computing
room. A written test examination on the subjects of the lectures
concludes the course.