H aircloth—Weight 30 lbs.—length 15 feet—breadth 11 feet.
HAND BARROW.—Weight 13 lbs.—length 5 feet 4 inches.
HANDSPIKES.—Common, weight 11 lbs. length 6 feet.
HARNESS.—For men, one set, 26 lbs. length, 12 feet.—Wheel harness for a pair of horses, such as is used in the service of artillery, about 1 cwt.
HORSES.—An allowance of 3 feet is generally made for the breadth of each horse standing at picket; and about 9 feet for the length of a horse.
A light dragoon horse, mounted and accoutered complete, carries about 2 cwt. 1 qr. and 14 lbs. without forage.
Horses in the service of artillery should not be made to draw above 3 cwt. each, besides the weight of the carriage.
Horses for this service should never be lower than 14¾ hands. The contractor is obliged to furnish them of this height for government.—A horse is generally supposed equal to five men.
Military horses walk about 400 yards in 4½ minutes.
Trot the same distance in 2 minutes 3 seconds, and gallop it in about 1 minute.