Windage of Guns and Carronades.

Natures. 68 42 32 24 18 12 9 6 4 3 2 1
Guns—.33.30.27.25.22.20.17.15.14.12.09
Carrona..15.15.15.14.12.12

Windage of Mortars and Howitzers.

From the 13 to 5½ inch the windage is .15 of an inch, and that of the 4⅖ is .2 of an inch.

Windage of French Guns.

Field Guns.—All one line of windage; about ¹/₅₀ in an 8 pounder.
Siege Guns.—All 1½ line; about ¹/₄₈ in a 24 Pr.
Mortars.—12 Inch;4 lines of windage.
10 Inch;1 line,5 points”
8 Inch;1 line, ”
Howitzers.—All;2 lines ”

WOOD.—Artillery carriages are generally made of elm, ash, and oak. The bed and house of a sea mortar are made of oak, and the bolster of elm. The bottoms of land mortar beds are of oak, and the upper parts of elm.

Carriages—Ship.—The cheeks, transoms, and trucks of elm;
the axle trees of oak.
”Garrison.—The whole of oak; trucks, iron.
”Field.—Heavy 24 and 12 Pr. the cheeks and
transoms of elm; the axle trees of ash.
In the wheel the nave and fellies are
of elm; the spokes of ash; limber
shafts, bars, and axle trees are of
ash. Light guns, from 3 to 12 Prs. the
cheeks and transoms are of elm; the
ammunition boxes are of fir. In the
wheels, the nave is of elm, the spokes
of oak, and the fellies of ash. In the
limber the shafts and bars of ash.

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