. Military sketching and map reading. Pig. 42 OUTDOOB^EXBRCISES 107. Fig. 43 LESSON XIXSUB-SKETCH Up to the present, the student has been concerned only withthe making of the sketch proper. It may often happfen thatthe scale of the sketch does not permit certain objects to beshown in sufficient detail. To draw the whole sketch to largerscale would entail unnecessary time and labor. It is, therefore,found convenient to draw a sub-sketch of very importantfeatures. The method shown in Fig. 41 is field glasses should be used for such sketching. In conjunction with road sketchi


. Military sketching and map reading. Pig. 42 OUTDOOB^EXBRCISES 107. Fig. 43 LESSON XIXSUB-SKETCH Up to the present, the student has been concerned only withthe making of the sketch proper. It may often happfen thatthe scale of the sketch does not permit certain objects to beshown in sufficient detail. To draw the whole sketch to largerscale would entail unnecessary time and labor. It is, therefore,found convenient to draw a sub-sketch of very importantfeatures. The method shown in Fig. 41 is field glasses should be used for such sketching. In conjunction with road sketching, it is frequently of ut-most military importance to show the appearance of the land-scape from given points on the road, even though such featureswill actually be beyond the limit of the road sketch method is illustrated in Fig. 45. Usually, these sub-sketches are made to a standard scale, though somethnes it ispermissible to exaggerate the vertical dimensions sub-sketches made in conjunction with the road sketchare usually made by an a


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