7. What is the weight of a howitzer of each kind?
10-inch, 9,500 lbs.; 8-inch sea-coast, 5,740 lbs.; 8-inch siege and garrison, 2,614 lbs.; 24-pdr. garrison, 1,476 lbs.; 32-pdr. field, 1,920 lbs.; 24-pdr. field, 1,318 lbs.; 12-pdr. field, 788 lbs.; 12 pdr. mountain, 220 lbs.
8. What is the natural angle of sight in siege and garrison and field howitzers?
One degree.
9. What in mountain howitzers?
Thirty-seven minutes.
10. Why have sea-coast howitzers no natural line of sight?
Because the swell of the muzzle is not visible when the eye is on a level with the base ring.
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