The compleat surveyor, containing the whole art of surveying of land : by the plaine table, theodolite, circumferentor, peractor, and other instruments : after a more easie, exact and compendious manner, then hath been hitherto published by any : the plain table being so contrived, that it alone will conveniently perform whatsoever may be done by any of the fore-mentioned instruments, or any other yet invented, with the same ease and exactness, and in many cases much better : together with the taking of all manner of heights and distances, either accessible or in-accessible, the plotting and protracting of all manner of grounds, either small inclosures, champion plains, wood-lands, or any other mountainous and un-even grounds : also, how to take the plot of a whole manor, to cast up the conteut, and to make a perfect chart or map thereof : all which particulars are performed three several ways, and by three several instruments : hereunto is added a new way of surveying of land, by which a man may be satisfied whether his plot will close before he begins to protract the same : with the manner how to order such water colours as are necessary for the beautifying of maps and plots : also how to know whether water may be conveyed from a spring-head to any appointed place or not, and how to effect the same : with whatsoever else is necessary to the art of surveying /