The young man's companion [electronic resource] : or, arithmetick made easy with plain directions for a young man to attain to read and write true English, with Copies in Verse for a Writing School, Indicting of Letters to Friends, Forms for making Bills, Bonds, Releaser, Wills, &c. Likewise, Easy Rules for the Measuring of Board and Timber, by the Carpenter's Plain-Rule, and by Fractions; with Tables for such as have not learned Arithmetick: And to compute the Charge of Building a House, or any Part thereof. Also Directions for Measuring, Guaging, and Plotting of Land by Gunter's Chain; and taking heights and distances by the Quadrant and Triangle. The Use of Gunter's Line in Measuring Globes, Bullets, Walls, Cones, Spire Steeples, and Barrels: With the Art of Dialling, and Colouring of Work within and without Doors. Directions for Dying of Stuffs, &c. Together with a Map of the Globe of the Earth and Water; and Copernicus's Description of the visible World. Also a Map of England; and to know which are Cities, and their Distance from London. Choice Monthly Observations for Gardening Planting, Grafting, Inoculating Fruit-Trees, and the best Time to Prune them; and the making Wine of Fruit: With experienc'd Medicines for the Poor. An Account of Curiosities in London and Westminster. Written by W. Mather, in a plain an easy Stile, that a a young Man may attain the same without a Tutor.