These new types of leveling instruments use a free mercury surface as a mirror to assure that the line of {HEAD ~ sight} through {TAIL ~ the center} of the cross hairs is horizontal, or has a very small but constant inclination from the true horizontal for all pointings to the leveling rods 
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These new types of leveling instruments use a free mercury surface as a mirror to assure that the line of { HEAD ~ sight } through { TAIL ~ the center } of the cross hairs is horizontal , or has a very small but constant inclination from the true horizontal for all pointings to the leveling rods
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