Excerpt from Geodesy: The Eastern Oblique Arc of the United States and Osculating SpheroidThe Eastern Oblique Arc, though treated separately, intersects the Transcontinental Arc, and the two triangulations have several lines in common. The former extends from the Bay of Fundy to the Gulf of Mexico, and parallels the Appalachian mountain system, while the latter crosses the axes of the great mountain systems of this country, and extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.Invaluable as the Transcontinental Arc is as a contribution to geodesy and the geography of our country, it does not in itself contain the data for determining the figure of the earth.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.