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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_LpDHvHSlkHmTmwknWbonvw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Hi Jamie, My husband, Don, sends you the following suggestion: Many years ago, Ernest Thomas Seton published, in “Two little savages” a very simple means of measuring the distance to a remote object, using nothing but a few stakes, a string and a tape measure. It requires producing what in Geometry are called congruent triangles. you make a small triangle you can measure that matches a large one which you can’t measure, and easily get your distance. 1. Pick a visible point on the shoreline and call it O 2. Place a stake beside your house (call this A) 3. Place a stake (B) 4 m from A, directly in line with O (ABO is a straight line) 4. Establish a right angle to that line a. Tie your string to B, measure a 5 m length & use this to mark an ark in the area around a right angle to the line AB b. Tie your string to A, measure a 3 m length & use this to mark an ark which crosses the previous arc. Put stake C in the intersection. c. The line AC is at right angles to AB 5. Measure from A 30 m along the line AC and put in a stake D. ACD should be in a straight line. 6. Measure from D a further 3 m in the same line and put in stake E. ACDE should form a straight line (note that DE is 1/10 of the length of AD) 7. At E mark a right angle to the line ACDE, in the direction away from O, in the same way you established the right angle at A a. Tie your string to E, measure a 4 m length and mark an arc approximately where the right angle line will come b. Tie your string to D, measure a 5' length, and mark an arc crossing the previous arc. Put a stake F at the intersection c. The line EF is at right angles to the line ACDE 8. Extend that line to a point at which you can sight over the stake D directly towards O a. Insert a stake G at that point. GDO should be in a straight line. b. Measure from G to E c. The distance A to O is exactly 10 x the distance from G to E (or as exactly as your measurements and stake placements allow). Lois Codling --Boundary_(ID_LpDHvHSlkHmTmwknWbonvw) Content-type: text/plain; name="file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/LOIS/LOCALS%7E1/TEMP/nsmail.txt" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline; filename="file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/LOIS/LOCALS%7E1/TEMP/nsmail.txt"; filename*0="file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/LOIS/LOCALS%7E1/TEMP/nsmail.txt" No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.35/680 - Release Date: 10/02/2007 9:15 PM --Boundary_(ID_LpDHvHSlkHmTmwknWbonvw)--
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