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Surveyors' Hall

Also called Surveyors’ Hall

A surveyors' body named as the issuer of circulars; the circular quoted in this part describes chart-making as survey, compilation, engraving and correction, with correction paid from a vote that is always the first to be cut.

A body that issues circulars and compilations, including a compilation of foreign judgements on Britannia and circulars on companies and on the knowledge proper to class and trade. The surveyors' body whose circulars carry Arthur Venn's observations on Basin loss registers, edge ports, the interior, the Glass Heads, extraction reports and station ports.

Named with it

  • Helena Mary Voss · published by its press
  • Jon Ketterby · office copy
  • Captain Hester Anne Blain · circular author
  • Marshal Odo Pike · circular author
  • Harbourmaster Elias John Crowe · office copy
  • Surveyor Arthur Venn · circulars
  • Surveyor Arthur Venn (surveyor
  • author of its circulars)

At the table

Named only in epigraph attributions. Venn's circulars are the source of several blunt observations: extraction reports approved unread, and station ports as 'more real empire than any handsome colouring on a map'.