[1] The 12 Prs. which have a small box on their limbers, carry 6 round shot and 2 case shot, with 6 cartridges of 4 lbs. and 2 of 3 1-2 lbs. of powder, more than the above proportion.
[2] A small limber box has lately been added to the medium 12 Prs. which carries 6 round shot and 6 case shot, with a small proportion of the small stores. See note page 11.
[3] Though the waggons will contain 20,000 cartridges, it is customary to load them with only 18 half barrels of 1000 each, and 2 half barrels of flints.
[4] For 16 Prs. in the French work, the compiler has said 18 Prs.—for 8 Prs. 9 Prs.—for 12 inch mortars, 13 inch; to which they nearly answer.
[5] Our iron mortars, on iron beds, all admit of being fired at low angles.
[6] A German author proposes that the mounds of earth which enable the guns to fire en barbette, should be so arranged, that the embrasures may be opened between them; and when the guns descend to the embrazures, the barbettes will serve as traversers.
[7] The compiler must here apologize for coining the word defiladed, which he is obliged to do, never having seen this subject treated of in English. But the French use the word defile in a contrary sense to enfile; and as we admit the words enfilade and enfiladed from the latter, we cannot refuse the terms defilade and defiladed from the former.
[8] This column expresses the number of pounds of metal in the guns, to each pound in the shot.
[9] See the word [Shell] for the principle on which the Germans class them in pounders.
[10] See the word [Chambers], for Experiments on the best form.