007   <   008   >   009       index

in the survey of rivers, creeks, and coasts

image

*
Plate 20 (cropped from border and page)
ex George G. André. The draughtsman’s handbook of plan and map drawing : including instructions for the preparation of engineering, architectural, and mechanical drawings. With numerous illustrations and coloured examples. London, 1891
University of Wisconsin – Madison copy, digitized July 23, 2007

“Mud. — In the survey of rivers, creeks, and coasts, it frequently becomes necessary to show tracts of mud between the lines of high and low water. For this purpose a flat-wash of sepia or Indian ink may be used dotted with Indian ink of greater intensity. The dots in this case must be very minute and thinly placed, and they should be evenly distributed. A fine-pointed pen will be found more effective in putting in these dots than the point of the brush.“
p 46

new vocabulary —
Spoil bank. The pile of refuse of excavation from a coal mine, or open coal pit.
*
 

22 October 2013

tags:
bog with timber; dots; mud; spoil bank
G. G. André, The draughtsman’s handbook of plan and map drawing (1891)