* described.
   The surveyors seem to have formed some kind of map of the
   country, as well as a description of it in writing.  The
   Egyptians, from the situation of their fields, as annually
   overflowed by the Nile, acquired great skill in mensuration
   and land surveying; and some of the Israelites had, no doubt,
   learned these from them, without a knowledge of which they
   could not properly have divided the land.  This is probably
   the first act of surveying on record.

 * into seven.
  Ac 13:19