. Military sketching and map reading. maybe purchased from Stewart & Company, 24 Broadway,New York City, and presumedly from other dealers. Thewax comes in different colors; the olive-green is preferablefor this work. The price of the wax in small orders isabout twenty cents per pound, and, when ordered in largequantities, it may be secured at a reduced rate. It takesabout twenty pounds to construct one of the Gettysburg-Antietam 12 sheets, but is well worth the investment. As, without doubt, you will have need to use theGettysburg-Antietam 12 sheets in connection withstudies of minor tactics,
. Military sketching and map reading. maybe purchased from Stewart & Company, 24 Broadway,New York City, and presumedly from other dealers. Thewax comes in different colors; the olive-green is preferablefor this work. The price of the wax in small orders isabout twenty cents per pound, and, when ordered in largequantities, it may be secured at a reduced rate. It takesabout twenty pounds to construct one of the Gettysburg-Antietam 12 sheets, but is well worth the investment. As, without doubt, you will have need to use theGettysburg-Antietam 12 sheets in connection withstudies of minor tactics, such as Studies in MinorTactics, 1915, and Small Problems, etc., let usconstruct a relief map of one of those sheets. Thenecessary 12 sheets, unmounted, included in the texts 38 MiLiTAKT Sketching referred to above may be secured from the Book Depart-ment, Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, at asurprisingly cheap price. The table, moulders wax, and maps having been se-cured, the actual method of construction is as follows:. Fig. 8 Place a suflScient amount of wax in each of the squares,and roll off flush with the top of the squares, so that younow have two sheets of wax each one-fifth of an inchthick. If the wax sticks to the tray and roller, apply alittle talcum powder Place the map over one of the Relief Maps 39 squares, and, with a blunt stylus, trace over^thelowestheavy contour (20 feet) on the map, leaving an impres-sion of same on the wax. Cut out that portion ofthe wax the surface of which, according to the map.
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