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Or fly a Cessna - far noisier than any drone - over the area with a fancy camera, or ...

Would it make all that much difference if they'd sent out an artist on horseback, to depict his property with quill and ink on parchment?

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I get that the horse allows the artist to see over the top of the fence into the yard without a ladder, but could we rely on the horse staying still during the drawing process?

Figure that they'd use horses with cooler temperaments. And a decent rider can control a horse pretty well with his legs. So - still enough.

How loud is this quill when it scratches against the parchment? Does the horse whinny?

the horse is a coconut afixed to a bicycle

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