actually these are 2 slightly different practices
tho both go by the same name of perambulation

the new hampshire style
as previously reported by jesper
is performed only from one tripoint to the next by commissioners
from both of the 2 towns that share the pair of tripoints

so there each town must actually perform individual
perambulations with each of its several neighbors during every 7
year cycle

the massachusetts & connecticut style
such as you have performed
is a complete but unilateral circumambulation of a town
& according to
http://cholesbury.com/beatbounds.htm
this is apparently the more traditional method
since meetings with perambulators of neighboring towns might
precipitate disagreements & altercations
& so were to be avoided

but the tripoints were always given special acknowledgement

modern practice of both methods often seems to involve a lot of
skipping between stones rather than actually perambulating the
entire boundary in the original & true meaning of the term

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@b...> wrote:
> I actually have first-hand experience with this activity. My wife
and
> I were appointed by the local Board of Selectmen to
"perambukate and
> mark" the bounds of our town in 2000. Here is the report we
submitted:
>
>
http://www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/hollistonboundary/index.htm
l
>
> BJB