We are ſorry that want of room prevents us from laying before our readers a detailed account of the objects embraced by the worthy author, (Mr Ainſlie, a landſurveyor of reputation and experience); but our conviction of the utility of the performance, induces us to recommend it to public notice in the moſt ſtrenuous manner.
agrīmensor, ōris, m. ager, // I.a landsurveyor, Amm. 19, 11; Cassiod. Var. 3, 52.
1988, Rajpal Kumar de Silva and Willemina G.M. Beumer, Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602–1796, Serendib Publications →ISBN, E.J. Brill→ISBN, part 3: “Authors, Artists and Illustrators”, page 447:
From the diary of Governor Isaac August Rumpf, who toured the country in the period 1717 to 1721 we know of and illustrate the work of at least three landsurveyors: Jan Stevenszn, a landsurveyor from 1716 to 1732, was born in Colombo and was in the service of the Company from 1703; Livinus Stevenszn was in VOC service from 1687 and was landsurveyor in Colombo between 1693–1715; in Galle from 1716 to 1736. Maarten Leusekam, was born in Colombo and joined the Company’s services in 1690. He was a landsurveyor in Jaffna from 1699 to 1722.
