The London encyclopaedia, or Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprisiong a popular view of the present state of knowledge . n. s. S To walk, or passthrough ; survey by passing through : perambu-lation is, the act of passing through; surveymade, or districts perambulated. The duke looked still for the coming back ofthe Armada, even when they were wandering andmaking their perambulation of the northern seas. li<ICO)l. PER 767 PER Persons the lord deputy should nominate toview and perambulate Irish territories, and there-upon to divide and limit the s
The London encyclopaedia, or Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprisiong a popular view of the present state of knowledge . n. s. S To walk, or passthrough ; survey by passing through : perambu-lation is, the act of passing through; surveymade, or districts perambulated. The duke looked still for the coming back ofthe Armada, even when they were wandering andmaking their perambulation of the northern seas. li<ICO)l. PER 767 PER Persons the lord deputy should nominate toview and perambulate Irish territories, and there-upon to divide and limit the same. Davies on Ireland. It might in point of conscience be demanded, bywhat authority a private person can extend a per-sonal correction beyond the persons and bounds ofhis own perambulation ? Holyday. France is a square of five hundred and fifty milestraverse, thronging with such multitudes that thegeneral calcul, made in the last perambulation, ex-ceeded eighteen millions. Hoael. PflKAMBULATOR, in surveying, an instru-ment for measuring distances, called also pedo-meter, way-wiser, and surveying-wheel. It con-sists of a wheel A A two feet seven inches and a. half in diameter; consequently half a pole, oreight feet three inches, in circumference. Onone end of the axis is a nut, three quarters of aninch in diameter, and divided into eight teeth;which, upon moving the wheel round, fall intothe eight teeth of another nut c, on one endof an iron rod Q, and thus turn the rod onceround in the time the wheel makes one revolu-tion. This rod, laying along a groove in the sideof the carriage of the instrument, has at its otherend a square hole, into which is fitted the end bof a small cylinder P. This cylinder is disposedunder the dial-plate of a movement, at the endof the carriage B, in such a manner as to bemoveable about its axis ; its end a is cut into aperixjtual screw, which falling into the thirty-twoteeth of a wheel perpendicular to it, upon drivingthe instrument forward,
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