Military topography

font ague, C.8 THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES ROBERT W WEBB GEOLOGY The RALPH LIBRARY DJfcEED DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, CALIF DEPT., U.C.U ROBERT W WEBB GEOLOGY DEPT., U.C.LA All Naval and Military Books, wheresoever Published, are kept in Stock, and can be supplied without delay, by EDWARD STANFORD, Naval and Military Publisher and Bookseller, 26 & 27, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London, S.W CATALOGUE POST FREE MILITARY TOPOGRAPHY ILLUSTRATED BY PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF A PRACTICAL SUBJECT BY MAJOR-GENERAL W MONTAGUE, E C,B, , p s c LATE GARRISON INSTRUCTOR; INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, ETC WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCXCIII All Riijhts reserved CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PAET I ELEMENTARY To find the distance elevation being from a Example of resection Example of intersection hill, its hill, its height and angle of known 13 ; by bearing being given To Method To Plotting from a to be used known when the in the contours of a point, its " 13 its known H ; E, one 14 15 not normal 15 16 find the height of an object, distance depression being also to find the height of a distance arid angle of elevation being also to fix the position of a point fill scale is and angle where several valleys unite of section line," also to fix the position HE and one bearing being given 562963 16 CONTENTS " Form lines" used to mark a change in slope on a hill- side 17 Example of the principal terms used in Topography in connection with the ground 10 Intersection 18 also to find heights, the ; elevation being given and angle of PART HE 18 II THE FIELD-BOOK 11 12 13 To sketch hilly country by a traverse To plot a traverse line across hilly country To plot from a field-book, and to find the RF 16 17 To 18 20 To To To 21 To 22 The use 23 plot a winding road, and the hills on either side plot a hill from contours noted in a field-book fix hill and traverse the initial up hill a valley, and plot the the scale not and a valley plot the traverse of a road winding traverse 25 26 plot a road crossing a 24 contour of an isolated plot a road winding normal 19 22 of the sketch To To To 14 21 initial up a hillside 27 28 29 contour of a hilly 30 feature plot in the head of a valley from notes in a field- book 31 of country " Reference Points " when plotting hilly 32 36 a* 72 60 48 36 21 13 ScoZe- fossa IXXXIX V \ V \ \ \ H nt.Qurs L M: zoo too 160 120 '00 80 SO 745 352 Scale Ts