The teacher chooses the ground, explains it by means of a plan to the students, and goes with them to the place. He divides them into various sections, and lets each select positions for from two to eight pieces, both for attack and defence with different kinds of ordnance, giving only generally the direction and distance at which the enemy is operating.
Each position is inspected by the teacher, and the views and reasons for it received and discussed as regards effect, mode of firing, and covering and free movement, and where it is necessary, improved; and at the same time the requisite precautions taken for the limbers and wagons.
C. Drawings of Ordnance Carriages and Wagons.
These exercises are to be undertaken by the artillerists of the second cœtus, under inspection of the teacher of artillery-drawing, on twelve afternoons in June.
The drawing of a piece of ordnance is to be clearly distinguished from the examination of it. For the first, taking the necessary measures is alone necessary, but not their comparison with given models.
The teacher will order these exercises, so that the students learn principally—
1. What scale they ought to take for a given object, so as to execute a drawing with the precision necessary for being afterwards worked from.
2. With what instruments and method of procedure they may most easily obtain their end.
3. How notices of improvements are to be taken and arranged.