TREATISE ON PRACTICAL GAUGING; CONTAINING Vulgar and Decimal Frations;[[cise; the Process of Gauging and Ul Square and Cube Roots; the most ap- laging Casks by the Call pers, Bung proved Methods of drawing Geome- Rod, and Head Rod, as conducted by trical Figures; Mensuration of Super- the Port Gaugers of the Excise and ficies and Solids applied to Gauging in Customs; and likewise the Method of all its Departments; the Method of Gauging,Fixing, and Inching the Utens finding the Contents of all the Cylin-sils of Victuallers, Common Brewers, drical, Pyramidical, and Conical Un- Maltsters, Distillers, Soap-makers, gulas, that can possibly be formed, by Starch-makers, and Glass-makers, as placing Vessels in various Positions: practised by the Officers of the Excise, the Method of Gauging, Ulaging, and in the United Kingdom of Great Inching Casks, as adopted in the Ex-Britain and Ireland. BY A. NESBIT, Master of the Commercial and Mathematical Academy, ing" " And Author of "A Complete Treatise on Practical Land Survey- AND W. LITTLE, OFFICER OF THE EXCISE. The whole illustrated by six hundred and eighty Practical Examples, one hundred and eighty Wood Cuts, and numerous explanatory Notes and Obserrations; and adapted not only for the Use of Schools, but also for Of ficers of the Excise and Customs; and will be found particularly serviceable to Victuallers, Common Brewers, Maltsters, Distillers, Rectifiers, Wine-merchants, Spirit-merchants, Innkeepers, Cider-makers, Vinegar-makers, Soapmakers, Starch-makers, and Glass-makers. Dedicated, by Permission, to the HONOURABLE COMMISSIONERS OF THE EXCISE. York: Printed by and for Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate; AND SOLD BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, LONDON; AND BY WILSON AND SONS, YORK, Price Eight Shillings Bound. |