Proceedings of the Association of Provincial Land Surveyors of Ontario, Томи 5 – 6Association of Provincial Land Surveyors of Ontario., 1888 |
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acres angle Annual Meeting Associate Members astronomical ballot boundary BRABAZON British Columbia Canadian Pacific Railway Cariboo carried chain Chairman chronograph chronometer Creek D. W. Smith Department distance district Dominion Land Surveyors E. J. RAINBOTH Engineer error Executive Committee feet G. B. ABREY gentlemen Geodetic Survey geographical Geological Survey gold Government Gunter's chain Honorary hour angle inches instrument Interior irrigation J. S. DENNIS JOHN MACOUN JOHN MCAREE Kamloops KLOTZ Lake latitude light longitude MACOUN Manitoba maps means measured meridian method micrometer miles miners mining Montmagny names Natural History observations Ogilvie Ottawa paper party placer mining plane President profession Provincial Land Surveyor Railway Resolution River road rock Secretary-Treasurer Standing Committee stars Survey of Canada Surveyor for Ontario Surveyor for Quebec T. D. GREEN telescope theodolite tion Topographical Surveying townships triangulation trigonometrical survey Upper Canada W. F. KING Winnipeg
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Сторінка 54 - The true sound of the word as locally pronounced will be taken as the basis of the spelling. 4. An approximation, however, to the sound is alone aimed at. A system which would attempt to represent the more delicate inflections of sound and accent would be so complicated as only to defeat itself.
Сторінка 54 - Every letter is pronounced. When two vowels come together each one is sounded, though the result, when spoken quickly, is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from a single sound, as in ai, au, ei. 8. Indian names are accepted as spelt in Hunter's Gazetteer.
Сторінка 9 - Section 1. The annual meeting of the Association shall be held at such time and place within or without the State of Illinois as may be designated by the Board of Governors.
Сторінка 55 - Turkish 1-As in English. has two separate sounds, the one hard as in the English word finger, the other as in singer. As these two sounds are rarely employed in the same locality no attempt is made to distinguish between them. As in English.
Сторінка 55 - Accents should not generally be used, but where there is a very decided emphatic syllable or stress, which affects the sound of the word, it should be marked by an acute accent.
Сторінка 120 - George the Third by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting...
Сторінка 54 - ... 5. The broad features of the system are that vowels are pronounced as in Italian and consonants as in English. 6. One accent only is used, the acute, to denote the syllable on which stress is laid. This is very important, as the sounds of many names are entirely altered by the misplacement of this
Сторінка 55 - Selebes. is always soft as in church English d. English / ; ph should not be used for the sound of /. Thus, not Haiphong, but is always hard. (Soft g is given by j) is always pronounced when inserted, as in \>'li<il ; better rendered by hw than by wh.
Сторінка 81 - The Pacific coast ranges upon the west carry quicksilver, tin, and chromic iron. The next belt is that of the Sierra Nevada and Oregon Cascades, which, upon their west slope, bear two zones, a foot-hill chain of copper mines, and a middle line of gold deposits. These gold veins and the resultant placer mines extend far into Alaska, characterized by the occurrence of gold in quartz, by a small amount of that metal which is entangled in iron sulphurets, and by occupying splits in the upturned metamorphic...
Сторінка 185 - Whenever two contiguous lands have never been bounded, or the boundaries have disappeared, or the fences or boundary works have been wrongly placed, and one of the neighbours refuses to agree upon a surveyor to determine the boundaries, or to verify or to rectify the division line, as the case may be, the other party may bring an action against him to compel him to do so.