Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . Jf^ layer, which should cross the first at rieht angles,and be well picketed to it. On this bed the parapetis raised, and, if the adjacent soil of wliicli it isformed is very wet, layers of smaller fascines may beadvantageously used at different heii;hts to preventthe wet soil from running. The site of the gunsshould be covered, to a depth of at least (> inches,with moist sand, or good loam well rammed, to re-cciv(^ the platforms; which, like those at the siegesof Forts Pulaski and Wugiier. should rest on a bedof plank, o
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . Jf^ layer, which should cross the first at rieht angles,and be well picketed to it. On this bed the parapetis raised, and, if the adjacent soil of wliicli it isformed is very wet, layers of smaller fascines may beadvantageously used at different heii;hts to preventthe wet soil from running. The site of the gunsshould be covered, to a depth of at least (> inches,with moist sand, or good loam well rammed, to re-cciv(^ the platforms; which, like those at the siegesof Forts Pulaski and Wugiier. should rest on a bedof plank, over which the weight of the guns shouldbe well distributed by the under timbers of the plat-form. On a site of solid rock the only means that can bewell employed for constructing the jxirapel is sand-bars. If the surf;ice of the rock on which the ]ilat- mortars are made of one solid block. The largerbeds are constructed and put together in a mannersimilar to the top-carriages for guns. At the endsof each cheek are projections, called front and rearnotches, undernea
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