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1. The Trigonometrical Survey of Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The survey which forms the subject of the present paper extends over an area of 6000 square miles, bounded by the Jordan on the east, the Mediterranean on the west, the river Leontes and the springs of Jordan near Dan on the north, and the desert of Beersheba on the south. Within these limits a complete triangulation, with two bases each about four miles long, has been extended, and the whole of the country mapped to the scale of one inch to the mile. The work occupied five years in the field, and nearly three years more in preparing the results for publication.

Type
Proceedings 1879–80
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1880

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