Word: stadia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...courses in railroad and geodetic surveying. The freshman course, covering the full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...