SERVICE OF ARTILLERY

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Numbi'i *

Forge hammers of sizes .. 1 ... 24

Forge tongs ...*.. .... pairs 16

Benches with iron and wooden beaks . 12

Files of sizes . 206

Rasps .. 50

Planes . 34

Large and small gouges . 48

Instruments for making screws of sizes . 16

Drills with bows .12

Augres . I2

Gimbiets . 60

Drawing knives . 12

Hand vices . 12

With a proper quantity of coals for the black-fmith and

armourers.

If the place be countermined, there should be the fameproportion of miner’s tools as in the former inventory;taking care to increase the number of them in proportion tothe number of miners, and to ad'd the following articles.Oaken planks for mantlets j beams of 5 inches by 7; planksfor occasional works, and for boxes to contain the powder;beams for making the frames of the occasional works ; pitchedwooden troughs; faucissons made of coarse cloth; largeoil-cloths ; sand-bags; petards ot sizes; shells ; pistols ;blunderbusses ; tin chandeliers. Lanterns ; olive-oil; can-dles ; nails of 40 to the Ib. ; powder; clay; old dung; in-flammable and fetid compositions. The quantity of eachof these articles must be apportioned to the manner in whichthe mines are charged, and to the method of carrying onthe subterranean war, which will be enlarged on in the 4thchapter.

126. The number of artillery-men for the daily serviceof the guns and mortars contained in this inventory, may beeasily inferred from the former remarks on that subject (^7):three times that number will de the proper compliment forthe defence of the place; one part is on duty on the bat-teries, and the second is-.prepanng nd providing the batterieswith stores, while the third is reposing. If the corps ofartillery be not sufficiently numerous fof all these duties,the line*’must furnish a certain number of additional gun-ners : four men at least, should be attached to every piece