The instructor [electronic resource] : or, young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier Way than any yet published; with instructions to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master; to write a variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse; Letters on Business or Friendship; Forms of Indentutes, Bonds, Bills of Sale, Receipts, Wills, Leafes, Releases, &c. Also Merchants Accompts and a short and easy Method of Shop and Book-Keeping; with a Description of the Counties and Market-Towns in England and Wales, and their Product. Together with the Method of measuring Carpenters, Joiners, Sawyers, Bricklayers, Plasters, Plumbers, Masons, Glaziers, and Painters Work, &c. The Mode of undertaking each Work. and at what Price; the Rates of each Commodity, and the common Wages of Journeymen; and a Description of Gunter's Line, and Coggeshail's Sliding-Rule. Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy; the Art of Dialling, and fixing Dials; with receipts for Dying, Colouring, and making Colours; and some General Observations for Gardening, through every Month in the Year. In this work is also given a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy; Containing A brief Description of the different Parts of the Earth, and a Survey of the Celestial Bodies. And some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, Accomptant. .