"A Layman's Guide to Land Surveying: or What Every Landowner Should Know about Land Surveying" Paper, 22 pages. Read this before you talk to your lawyer about your boundary disputes! This booklet tells you how to shop for a surveyor, and how to tell him what you want done. Lots of information about boundary law, deciphering land descriptions, and what a surveyor can and cannot do for you. $5, ppd from the author: F. Henry Sipe, 1404 Harrison Ave, Elkins WV 26241. 304/636-2465. This fellow holds West Virginia Surveyor's License No 1. Tell him that Dave Byter at CAVE Inc sent you. We disagree about the wisdom of doing it yourself, but this is to be expected. I'm a geologist, he's a surveyor. I believe that there are many cases where you can reasonably do a preliminary survey, so long as you don't think that you are performing magic. Surveying it yourself should also help you to understand what the professional surveyor is talking about. Eschew obfustification.