Original Error

So, if the error was discovered too late, does that mean there wasn't an error?

cool, dealing with the same stuff we do today

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@dougie?ÿ

Yes, it does ?????ÿ

Oxymoron

The script is uncommonly easy to read.?ÿ

I read that they went over 19 chains too far. You'd think that someone would have noticed that even without reference to "tables". But I suppose they did, and that is how the error was discovered after the fact.?ÿ?ÿ

@norman-oklahoma I had the same thought about the script. I wish the scriveners of that era in my area had written so clearly.

The better the script, the farther removed they were from the actual field work.?ÿ

@bill-c The stuff I had to read for the CFedS course was written atrocity. The quality of the photocopying didn't help a bit either.

@richardlhardison?ÿ

Oh, it gets much worse than that.

Note - by an error in tables this traverse was continued, and the frost planted giving it too much departure, which however did not interfere with the township below it, the error was not discovered until too late to be corrected.

error in tables - traverse computations?

frost planted?ÿ- what does this mean?

@field-dog It looks to me like it's "post planted." Note the similarity (in the document) of the first character of each of those two words.

@bill-c?ÿ

I was skeptical about frost in Louisiana!

@field-dog?ÿ

Depending on what you mean by "Traverses", they?ÿ were not often used in GLO surveys, the lines are mostly run straight through and corrected for curvature and misclosre.