Surveying Under Difficulties. The Graphic 21 September 1878: 285. Source: Internet Archive web version of a copy in the University of Illinois Library. Click on image to enlarge it
“Here we have a ‘working’ flooded with water, in which the men are wading knee-deep. The surveyor is taking an observation through the sights of a ‘miner’s dial.’ An assistant holds one end of the measuring chain, whilst others (not shown in the sketch) are holding their lamps at various points in the distance, for the surveyor's observations” (283).
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Bibliography
Work at a Coal Mine, I.” The Graphic (21 September 1878): 284-85. Internet Archive online version of a copy in the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana. Web. 25 July 2021.
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