Good morning one & all. A question to any budding or current land surveyor experts......... I'm in the midst of transcribing conveyancing instructions from a ledger housed in the archives at the Penetanguishene Centennial Museum. This ledger of mortgages, lease agreements, chattel loans, wills, etc commences in 1905 to ? (I haven't cheated and peeked at the end of the book yet!). One oddity I am encountering has me curious and I thought I'd see if any of our listers can explain this - the land descriptions are very detailed, but - in land descriptions I see the terms, which I have heard before, of - chains, measures, links, feet, yards, rods and acres - all in the same paragraph or on the same page. It's not a matter of it being entered by a different author - these reports were all entered by W.H. HEWSON. I was just curious to know if there was any sort of standard which determined when various terms were used, i.e. chains, links, etc. Or was it merely a matter of Mr. Hewson writing down descriptions perhaps based on previous descriptions, or just writing whatever his little heart desired. Any opinions? Methinks Mr. Hewson just did this, knowing that 100 years hence I'd be puzzled over the same...........No?