Military schools and courses of instruction in the science and art of war, / in France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Sardinia, England, and the United States. Drawn from recent official reports and documents. Revised Edition

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(17.) Mechanics and steam-engine.

(18.) Magnetism and electricity in relation to ships.

(19.) Laws of storms and tides.

(20.) Knowledge of the code of signals.

(21.) Mercantile laws and usages, as far as is necessary for the master of a merchant ship.

(22.) Gymnastics.

* The boys are expected to be proficient in these subjects before entry, and they need only be taken up in the way of review.

The above subjects are taught in the Navigation School at Hull.

II. A Navigation School should provide a good supply of apparatus, viz., instruments, books, maps, slates, &c. without any charge to the pupils.

In Ireland, where a class of Navigation Schools has been established as part of the system of National Education, a very liberal supply of sextants, books, maps, &c., is given to each school by the Board of Education.