Excerpt from A Treatise of Practical Surveying: Which Is Demonstrated From Its First Principles, Wherein Every Thing That Is Useful and Curious in That Art Is Fully Considered and Explained The Numerator, in the Vulgar Form, is always wrote over the Denominator, and thefe are fepara ted by a fmall Line, thus - ii, or 1 - 73 32333310, the fir of thefe is called 5 Twelfths, and the latter 7 Twelfths of an Inch, Yard, Perch, or of what ever the whole Thing originally was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.