"In our work, the ability to make a rough but reliable sketch survey is often of great value.

Have you ever looked over these notes ?" "No.

I put the book away when I came in and have never looked at it since." "It is a quaint document.

You seem to be rich in railway bridges in those parts, and the route was certainly none of the most direct, as you noticed at the time.

However, we will plot it out and then we shall see exactly what it looks like and whither it leads us." He retired to the laboratory and presently returned with a T-square, a military protractor, a pair of dividers and a large drawing-board on which was pinned a sheet of cartridge paper.
"Now," said he, seating himself at the table with the board before him, "as to the method.