Suggested Reading:

Robert Gibson, A Treatise on Practical Surveying various American editions, 1803 to 1835

Abel Flint, A System of Geometry and Trigonometry; together with a treatise on surveying Hartford, CT: various editions,

Jacob Gummere, A Treatise on Surveying ... to which is affixed a perspicuous system of plane trigonometry, Philadelphia: various editions, l8l7

Frederic Walter Simms, A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Levelling ..., Baltimore, 1837