IIRC, he later went back with a surveyor friend and the measured the distance with a chain. (?) I've heard of that term before but have no clue what or how it's done.
Paul B.
A Gunters or surveyors chain is a 66 foot distance measuring device used along a compass line or along a series of survey markers, stakes or ribbons. Originally made up of 100 links of equal length, now a steel tape is used, if and when they use an actual chain and not an EDM device. A quarter chain (25 links) is a rod (16.5 feet), 10 chains is a furlong and 80 chains is a mile.
