Excerpt from Elevation and Stadia Tables: For Obtaining Differences of Altitude for All Angles and Distances, Horizontal Distances in Stadia Work, Etc., With All Necessary CorrectionsFor all distances under 1 4 miles. The correction may be taken as 5 feet. Height of Instrument is assumed feet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.