Excerpt from The Six-Chord Spiral

On location it is not even necessary to run in the six-chord, a terminal curve of half the degree of the main curve and giving the same length as the spiral line being substituted.

In this connection note that curves are usually traced a number of times and by different men before the final centering.

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