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I do not remember any one thing relative to the service that they recommended 
or projected, but what was usefull and serviceable. I looked up to the former 
as the first artillery officer in the world, and the latter great indeed in the 
department he held in the Ordnance. 
“ The very great inconveniency I have always found in our having on 
foreign service the very heavy thill and trace harness, has induced me to make 
others much more suitable for our light artillery. The weight of them is one 
objection ; there are many others—-viz. they seldom fit the horses of other 
countries, as the horses of every nation differ from one another in make and 
shape. In consequence of that different make of their shoulders, they soon 
become sore, and of course when you put them to the carriage in order to 
march, they will not touch collar. Another very great inconveniency is, that 
when you are ordered on a service to keep your artillery horses harnessed by 
the Commander-in-Chief (which I have known to be done by Prince Perdinand 
and the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick for many days together), the horses 
cannot feed: for this reason—if you slaken the collar, it falls on the horse's 
head; if you keep it buckled up in its proper place, the horse cannot get his 
head to the ground so as to feed ; and no one can, but such as have had 
experience, judge the distress we have been in—particularly so when we were 
obliged to take them to grass or corn fields, some place near the guns and 
carriages. The same plague attended us through Canada, and after passing 
the lake. 
“ The harness that the Hanoverians, Germans, and the Americans use for 
draught, are infinitely superior to ours ; and I must say that a kind of horse 
harness made use of by the people at Philadelphia and at Albany, are very 
usefull and handy. The harness of my construction are not like unto either 
of the before-mentioned; indeed mine are of two sorts—the one for great 
draughts, and the other for smaller; and through all the artillery service, I 
consider it to consist of two parts—viz. the heavy and the light—and the 
method that I adopt for the one, differs of course from the other. 
“ There is no one thing more necessary for to be considered by Govern¬ 
ment, than to find out the way of making carriages and packing boxes, &c., 
that take up the least room in stowage. It is not of so much consequence at 
home ; but when you consider the many thousand tons of shipping is saved 
by what you are obliged to send abroad, it becomes an object of great con¬ 
sequence. One ammunition waggon takes up more room than six of my 
constructed carts, that carries the same weight. 
“ The ammunition boxes that are now in use with us, make very great 
breakage j the one for fixed case shot, that carries 12 rounds, is— 
ft. in. 
Length .. 2 7 
Breadth.... 1 If 
High......... 0 10 
The one of my construction, that carries 14 rounds, is in 
ffc. in. 
Length.. 2 4J 
Breadth... 0 8| 
Heighth. 3 8 
“ In embarking or disembarking of artillery and carriages in the night, and 
