Lz8 SERVICE OF ARTILLERY

first signal, the quarter-master with the can-..-colour-menand a waggon-master, goes forward to th.' : it .is

intended to halt, in o der to prepare quaru-: ! r .; and

choose a spot for paiking the artillery-, it ougso - con-tain ail the carriages drawn up in a square, leaving betweeneach trie a lpace sufficient for harnessing and unnarnesiingthe oxen. The park is formed as fall as the carriages arrive ;and guards posted for the lately of the powder and stores,and to prevent the desertion of the drivers. The forage isdistributed in such proportions, that the cattle mav be ableto continue their route at the appointed time. I he guardsfurnilh rounds and patroles during the niehr, and allowno person to approach the park, unleis sent by the com-manding officer. The fame order of march is resumedthe next and following days, till the convoy reaches itsdestination ; never moving more than 14 miles a day, espe-cially with oxen. To prevent confusion, the drivers areobliged to keep the fame place during the whole march;and for the fake of punishing irregularity, each carriage isnumbered, and the driver wears a ticket in his hat.

40. When part of the stores are carried on beasts ofburthen (23), in making up the several convoys, they Ihouldbe kept totally distinct from the carriages; and the officerwho goes forward to mark out the park, Ihould pitch onone or two houses for lodging the stores, where theymay be ranged in their several classes, and the powder andother articles effectually sheltered from rain. If no (beltercan be found, some mules laden with planks and sleepersshould march at the head of the convoy, to make platformsfor keeping the articles that mav be damaged by wet, fromtouching the ground ; and oil-cloths with which everymule ought to be provided, should be laid over thetvhole.

41. When the artillery and its appurtenances are to betransported in boats, some (kids should be laid under theguns and mortars, and small floors made of planks forsupporting the (hot, (hells, match, &c. always leaving a clearspace in the middle of the boat for bailing.

The stores are transported in waggons from the maga-zines to the place of embarkation, which (hould be spa-cious enough to admit of many men being employs a *the fame time, without confusion or danger of mixingthe stores of different species together.

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