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Description of a Camp Telegraph . 
to state, that my invention has already been honoured 
with the approbation of several general and other offi- 
cers very capable of forming correct opinions on the sub- 
ject and that I have frequently asked a question with 
it at the distance of six miles , and have received an an- 
swer within three minutes. Any officer of ordinary ca- 
pacity will be able, after two hours’ application, to direct 
a station ; any private will perform the duty of a signal- 
man after half an hour’s drill ; and, the apparatus not 
being more cumbrous than a serjeant’s pike, there seems 
no necessity whatever for a separate establishment to ma- 
nage it. 
Explanation . 
To work the Camp Telegraph, which is numerical , 
the director of each station must be assisted by three pri- 
vates or others, to be called signal-men ; one of whom 
must be furnished with a staff 13 or feet high, on 
which must be mounted two flexible balls, about three 
feet diameter, as described below this is called the 
centre-point . The other two signal-men must each be 
furnished with a staff ten feet high, mounted with one 
flexible ball. 
The signals must be made by one or both of the sig- 
nal-men taking an ordered number of paces to the right 
or left of the centre-point ; in the rear of which the di 
rector takes his stand, during the time of making com- 
munications. 
All signals must be made by order of the director of 
the station, who must give the word for the necessary 
number of paces. These are to be taken by the signal-, 
men, in double-quick time , carrying their balls at the 
trail ; and when they have arrived at the point or points 
ordered, the balls must be instantly elevated. 
All signals must be repeated by the corresponding sta- 
