Milford chronicle., 1915-07-23

trolls, but each Scout will be expected to
be prepared to cook his own rations.
Continued from last week.
The best way is to prepare a scale be-
forehand, showing the map distance for
20 feet V. I. for each degree of slope
from "a degree to 10 degrees. Now locate
the top of your hill by intersection as de-
scribed above. At each sighting point
take the elevation by means of your
slope board. Now lay your map distance
M. D. scale along the line drawn from
your sighting point to the top of hill and
mark off the points where contour lines
must be drawn according to the degree
of elevation indicated by your slope board.
OF course, if the slope is not uniform,
the. contour lines will be closer in some
, placed and farther Fart in others. This
you must estimate and draw your lines
accordingly. The course of the contour
lines between the points marked off on
abe two sighting lines must also be judged. |
Only practice will make you expert in |
this. of course certain prominent fea- |
lures of the contour of an important hill |
can be located by intersection as well as
the top, and this can be resorted to until |
your observation and judgment of dis
tance and lay of the ground are well |
trained.
We will now take up the way to 90
about map making of the country along
a road commonly known as a road sketch.
Provide yourself with a drawing board, l.
about a foot square, the back of which
should be arranged as a slope board as
described in the previous lesson. Your
drawing paper should be fastened to this
with thumb tacks and should be of a
quality that will stand good deal of eras-
ing. Have a couple of good pencils and
an eraser. You will need foot rule and
a compass The map scale made out ac-
cording to your strides and the map dis
tance scale for use in locating contours
have been described above. The meth
DDS of orientatiOn and of locating objects
and landmarks by intersection have been I
fully explained as well as the theory of
contours for indicating elevations. The /
signs and the abbreviations
should be studied until you are thor I
oughly familiar with them. Now we are
ready to begin our road sketch. Place
your compass on the drawing board allow d
the needle to settle until it is stationary,
then draw line parellel to it and mark I
the north end. Determine what part of
the road in and mark your starting point, E
giving it the number ! Lay your ruler N
On the paper, starting with the point you
1ave marked, keep your north and south L
inc parallel with the compass needle, Il
md sight along the ruler moving it un-
il it is in exactly the line of the road. "a
Then draw a straight line along it for an M
Indefinite distance. Now step off with -
our right foot, counting every time your y
eft strikes the ground. When you OBJ NJ
erve high hills or other conspicuous
stop and take sighting, as u
Explained under intersection and i'll the Vi
ase of hills or depressions, take the angle =,
( elevation with the slope board. Make %
otes as you go along of houses, churches, w
nd other buildings as well as other fea-
lres that should be on the map. Do au
OF stop to put each thing on the map as ou
on come to it, but make notes as to dis
Ince from starting point, which side of Vl'
,ad etc, and then place them OH your re-
ap when you stop to take a sighting or
ecause the road changes direction ne
Thenever the road does change direc- ViS
on, stop, see that your board is oriented
Id then lay off the new direction with sp
,ur ruler Just as for the start. At all W.
Oss roads you should halt and plot the
rectiou. Whenever you stop in this
ay, indicate it on your map and mark
two, three, etc, consecutively, as this l
II assist you in working out your notes. hay
the road crosses a stream, halt and get POI
e direction of the stream and the de- tina
ription of the bridge. When you get {
a suitable place for your second sight pas
2 for the durpose officiating some land Mr.
lrk by means of intersection, stop and \
your data. Take in everything within wo'
yards of the road and all landmarks Sui
special Importance at a greater dis J
Ice. When plotting the distance trav- pas
ed by means of your scale, it is better Raj
lay off the whole number of strides n
m your starting point and not Just pas
lply the number of strides from one DR..
piping place to another. That is each N
lie you stop, locate the point on the her
D by laying off the whole number of rims
des since you started your map, and
from the last halting place. The joyi
or in distance is kept down in this botl
2. Remember at each sighting, to be a W
sful to keep your board oriented, that resit
With the north and south line on the
D exactly parallel with that of your
lpass. When the map is finished,
.e or print title describing the route, M
ing from where and to where the was
leads, and giving the scale, vertical, ston
rval, etc. If the paper is not long writ
ugh, either place new sheet on your head
d or begin again on some convenient also
: of the paper you have. In either daue
put down a new north and south let's
and begin your sketch just as in the she
case, making the first point on the insis
sketch corresponding with the last helpC
t of the old. These different por- For