[SECOND PART.—ARCHITECTURE OF MILITARY BUILDINGS.]
Lecture 1.—Decoration, without making use of the orders of architecture. Principal conditions relating to decoration. Symmetry, regularity, simplicity, unity, and apparent soliditity. Proper character. Proportions of the façades. Height of the stories. Basements. Horizontal chains or fillets. Vertical chains and pilasters. Proportions of the doors and windows. Arcades and arched windows. Cornices, pediments.
Lecture 2.—Distribution of buildings. Considerations that should have weight in the distribution. Number composing the edifice. Circumstances that guide in the disposal of masses. Conditions that should be satisfied in placing a building. Locality and suitable dimensions. Relations that should exist between them. Interior and exterior communications. Stories on the same floor. Position of the large rooms. Separation of the rooms. Position and arrangement of staircases. Verification of stability.
Lecture 3.—Conditions to be fulfilled in the distribution of the principal military establishments. Arsenals. Polygons for drill. Military establishments to the School of Bridges.
Lecture 4.—Foundries. Manufacture of arms.
Lecture 5.—Refining saltpetre. Powder. Powder magazines. Details relative to the construction of lightning conductors.
Lecture 6.—Infantry and cavalry barracks.
Lecture 7.—Hospitals. Military prisons and penitentiaries.
Lecture 8.—Storehouse for corn. Store-pits. Storehouse for fodder. Preserving houses.
Lecture 9.—Cisterns. Filtration.