... for the legal determination of the standard Yard, that which was employed by General Roy, in the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath, as a foundation for the trigonometrical operations that have been carried on by the Ordnance throughout the country... Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 62edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1820 - 894 pages
...preferred without any difference that would become sensible in common cases, we beg leave to recommend, for the legal determination of the standard yard,...employed by general Roy in the measurement of a base on Hounslowheath, as a foundation for the trigonometrical operations that have been carried on by the... | |
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