Quotes about Surveying

Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.

With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

By the time George Washington was out surveying the wilderness tracts of land for Lord Fairfax, the proprietor of the Northern Neck's vast expanse, the Indians were no longer an immediate menace, since they had been driven far back into the forests by the previous generations of armed colonists.

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.