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A50263 A very useful manual, or, The young mans companion containing plain and easy directions for spelling, reading, and uniting English, with easy rules, for their attaining to writing, and arithmetick, and the Englishing of the Latin Bible without a tutor, likewise the plotting and measuring of land, globes, steeples, walls, barrels, timber, stone, boards, glass, &c. ... : and several other considerable and necessary matters, intended for the good of all, and for promoting love to one another : as by the table annexed particularly appears / collected by William Mather. Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695. 1681 (1681) Wing M1286; ESTC R36919 124,932 462

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and 360 of these degrees is round the Earth or Globe as is supposed This North Pole is elevated above our dwelling about 52 degrees 30 Minutes Therefore a man may travel until the South Pole seem to be over his head So being these two Stars are as fixed they are of great help to those that go over the Sea together with the help of a needle placed in the Sea-man's Compass which needle turning upon a point will not be still until it points at one end to the Iron-Mines in the North because of its being touched by a Load-stone that draws always towards the North and the place to which they are travelling to if it bears South or S.S.W. the Compass will shew The height of the Pole in degrees and Minutes are taken by a Quadrant like this Figure following on which Lines may be drawn to find the hour of the day I have only placed the 12 hours ' and by this Table following you may place the rest A Table for the Latitude of 52 Degrees for the Quadrant Hours D. M. D. M.   12 60 0 38 30 11 1 59 43 36 38 10 2 53 45 31 37 9 3 45 42 26 7 8 4 36 41 18 8 7 5 27 17 9 17 0 6 18 11     5 7 9 32     4 8 1 32     Place the hour Lines by the Degrees on the Edge of the Quadrant and to find the hour of the day place a Bead upon the string and on the Edge of the Quadrant is set M for March next A for April betwixt these two or any two Months that the time is when you would know the hour of the day as suppose it is the 15th of March set the Head at the 25th because the Month you must suppose to begin on the 10th of each Month then let the Sun shine through the sights and the Bead will shew the hour of the day In Sun Dials the Stile or straight wire that shaddows every hour Line should point directly to each of these two Stars like as the doted Line which if you can so place upon any flat or upright thing you may with ease draw the hour Lines by the shadow thereof at length by another Sun Dial rightly placed when the Sun shines at any time of the year or by a Clock if it goes right that day as you draw the Lines Or do thus to place a Stile upon and upright Wall that is Southward Just at 12 a Clock set one end of a stick against a Wall and at the other end let a Line and 2 Plummet hang till the shadow of the stick and string hang in a straight Line upon the Wall being held square wise mark both ends of the shadow upon which place your stile that the distant of the lower end from the Wall may be 37 Degrees 3 Minutes and draw the hour Lines as before and when the days are at the longest you may add more hour Lines set the stile square wise from the Wall stile The 37 Degrees 30 Minutes must be taken from the Quadrant for the height of the Stile and ready to fasten upon the Shadow if this stile is placed upon a Board fastened to the South Wall it will serve for a Northern Dial on the other side of the Wall turning the Stile upside down and draw the hour Lines as before And Direct East or West Dials You may place the stile as before by setting a Board Southward by a Wall to find the place by a stick and Plummet and take it away as soon as you have fastened the Stile from the Dial. stile Set the stile upright and exactly North and South at 12 a Clock and draw the hour Lines as before But being that there are so many Books already printed concerning Dialling I shall forbear at this time to write any further thereof that this Book also may not be too big The 32 Winds or Seaman's Compass which are placed round a Circle which they learn by heart in this I have only placed the 4 Winds Now the point or wind any Land bears to may be found in a Table in some Almanacks and the same point may be found in the Compass North. N by E N N E N E by N N E N E by E E N E E by N East S by E S S E S E by S S E S E by S E S E S E by S South S b W S S W S W by S S W S W by W W S W W by S West N by W N N W N W by N N W N W by W W N W W by N North. The Five Senses are 1. Seeing 2. Hearing 3. Smelling 4. Tasting 5. Touching The Compass of some Islands   Miles Compass of England 1532 Scotland 1100 Ireland 948 Isle of Man 91 Isle of Anglesey 58 Isle of Wight 57 Isle of Garnsey 36 Islle of Jersey 28 Acres of several Nations by V. Wing   Acres England 29568000 Scotland 14432000 Ireland 18000000 United States 3599000 Seventeen Provences of the Low Countreys 10791000 France and its 32 Provences 82879000 Eight Kingdoms of Spain 670000535 Italy 44257000 To know when it is Leap-year Divide the present year by 4 what remains shall be for Leap-year o for past 1 2 or 3. Example One remain it 's first after Leap-year To rate Town Taxes Suppose A. hath an Estate worth 35 pounds a year payeth 5 s. 10 d. to a Subsidy or Tax what shall B. pay whose Estate is worth 100 pounds per Annum Answer 16 s. 8 d. If 35 l. pay 70 d. what shall 100. l. That is 16 s. 8 d. Suppose a Tax or rate of 39 l. is laid upon a Town for certain uses whose value of the Town Rent is 900 l. per Annum I demand every mans proportion of what he shall pay according to his Rent If one man in the said Town be worth 100 l. per Annum what shall he pay to the said Rate Reduce the 39 l. into farthings and say If 900 l. give 37440 q. what 100 l. give the Answer To measure Timber of three equal sides being at the end like this Figure following And one side is 16 Inches and the doted Line or perpendicular ten Inches Multiply half the doted Line 5 into the base or one side and that product by 62 if it be the length in Inches and the last product divide by 1728 the Inches in one foot as in round and square Timber measure and the Quotient shews the number of Feet To measure Timber having 5 6 or 7 equal sides Multiply half the Compass by half the thickness and that product by the Length in Inches and work as before To measure a Cone or Spire Steeple Multiply half the Compass at the bottom thereof by half the thickness and that Product by the third part of the length shews the Content in Inches the which divide by 1728 as before To measure part of a Circle First To find the half of the arch Line