The students will be permitted to lend a hand only in such cases as it is foreseen that their strength will be sufficient. For all other purposes where strength is necessary, workmen must be employed.
II. EXERCISES IN THE SECOND CŒTUS.
When the teacher judges proper, some of the previous visits are repeated on the afternoons disposable during the theoretical course.
A. Marking out and Tracing Batteries.
The students undertake these exercises under inspection of their teacher of artillery on two days in the last three months of the course.
The teacher instructs them then how to ascertain the prolongation of the enemy’s lines, and the mode of determining the line of fire of the first embrasure of the different batteries, as well as the other points to be marked out, both with the use of the usual instruments, and with simple measurement by pacing, and laying down right angles by the eye.
A complete construction of a battery is not possible on account of the shortness of time, paucity of means, and strength of the students. The exercise, therefore, is confined to an explanation of the formation of the material and tool depots; to marking out and tracing horizontal and sunk batteries on even, irregular, and sloping ground, and to the construction of the powder magazine.
B. Practical Exemplification of the Rules for Placing Ordnance according to the Ground.
These exercises are to be carried out on two afternoons by all the students, under the inspection of their artillery teacher.
They have only reference to the ground, and leave out of consideration all tactical considerations. This object may be fully attained even without guns, and the necessary instruction may be given without them, as it would not be easy to form all the batteries in the desired number.