Excerpt from Triangulation Along the West Coast of Florida A considerable portion of the triangulation along the west coast of Florida has been revised in recent years. Many of the old stations, the localities of which were visited, were not recovered. Some of them, it was determined, have been lost or destroyed. Others, it seemed probable, still existed, but the expense of a complete search was too great and the chances of recovery too small to warrant the search. Many stations, however, were recovered, and they were usually re-marked in a more permanent manner. Their descriptions were revised and additions made to them where necessary. At several places along the coast, principally in the bays and harbors, new triangulation has been executed over the areas covered by the old triangulation. The reason for this apparent duplication is that not enough of the old stations could be recovered in those particular regions to control the hydrography or the topography. In every case the new work starts from two or more of the old stations which were recovered and is tied to as many more of the old stations as it was possible to locate. In St. Andrews Bay and the upper part of Tampa Bay, where nearly all of the old stations have been lost, only those recovered and the new stations have been included in this publication. At other places along the coast, as, for example, in Boca Celga Bay, practically all of the old stations have been lost and new triangulation has been executed over, the same areas, but it has been necessary to use the old work in carrying forward the United States Standard Datum, and so the results have been included in this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.