The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-trees also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. : with several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns : also rules by M. Cook.

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Title: The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-trees also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. : with several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns : also rules by M. Cook.
Author: Cook, Moses.
Publication: London :: Printed for Peter Parker ...,; 1676.
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Subject terms: Forests and forestry -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XLVI. (Book 46)

The Description of the Line of Numbers, or Gunters Line. (Book 46)

THis Line commonly on your two foot Rule is in two parts, and each of these two parts divided into 9 unequal parts, which be called Primes, or Integers, or whole Numbers, and are distinguished by these Figures; the first part to the left hand hath 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10: Now this Middle one, which I call 10, is also but one, as the line may be read: and then the second part to the Right hand is also 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: Now this last part I shall for di∣stinction call the Second Part, and then each of those Integers from the first one to the middle, is subdivided into 10 unequal parts, and from the middle one to 10 at the end of the Second part, between eve∣ry

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two Figures, according to the same order that the other were di∣vided into 10 parts; and each of these 10 parts should be divided into 10 parts more, if the Rule were long enough to bear them; but on every two-foot Rule that hath this line well made on it, they be from the Middle one, to two in the Second part, first divided into 10 parts, and then each of these into 10 other parts; and were the Rule long enough: these should be divided into 10 other parts; but to read a summe of a Thousand, you must estimate or ghess at the Unite, so that you may read any summe under a thousand, expressely, from the first one to 10; in the Second Part you may read 199 expressely, the middle one being 100, then 9 tenths is 90, and 9 tenths of them tenths is 9, that is, 199; which is the Division next to 2 in the second part of your Rule.

By this you may observe, that the longer your Rule is, the more exactly you may number or read a great summe, especially if you understand Arithmetick; as may be seen more fully in the Rules of Arithmetick following.