The compiler has added to this edition a short alphabetical index to the contents. This may appear to some superfluous, considering the alphabetical arrangement of the subjects: but it has been impossible to avoid a great deal of reference from one part of the work to another: beside, the compiler has observed in several of the copies in the possession of his friends, notes in manuscript, (entered on sheets bound up for the purpose) which are also to be found in the body of the work. This the compiler attributes to a cause which the index may probably remedy, by enabling the reader to know, at one view, the whole contents.

A MMUNITION—For small arms, in the British service, is generally packed in half barrels, each containing 1000 musquet, or 1500 carbine cartridges. An ammunition waggon will carry 20 of these barrels, and an ammunition cart 12 of them: their weight nearly 1 cwt. each.

The cartouch boxes of the infantry are made of so many different shapes and sizes, that it is impossible to say exactly what ammunition they will contain; but most of them can carry 60 rounds. See the word [Cartridges]; and for Artillery Ammunition, see the word [Artillery], for the field, for the siege, and the defence of a fortified place.

The French pack all their ammunition in wagons without either boxes or barrels, by means of partitions of wood. Their 12 Pr. and 8 Pr. waggons will contain each 14,000 musquet cartridges, but their 4 Pr. waggons will contain only 12,000 each.

AMMUZETTE—See the word [Guns].

APRONS—of lead for guns—

lbs.oz.
Large—1 foot long—10 inches wide84weight.
Small—6 inches ” —4½ ”  ”112”

ARMS—Small

Nature. Length of
Barrel.		 Diam. of
Bore.		Balls weight for
Proof.Service.
Ft.In.Inches. oz. dr. gr. oz. dr. gr.
Wall pieces4 6.98 2 8  82  5 7
Musquet3 6.76 1 6  11½1  112
Carbine3 0.61 014 130 1211
Pistol, common1 2.58 0 8 150  7 4½
”  carbine1 0.66 014 130 1211