MINUTES OP PROCEEDINGS OP 
28a 
The Austrian glacis was a mere nothing, the Eussian was almost as large 
as in a permanent fortification. 
In front of the Austrian guns an additional height was given to the 
parapet by earth heaped upon the superior slope. The terreplein of the 
Eussian rampart, (for these works had a low rampart), was 7i ft. below the 
crest of the parapet, and an earthen platform about 18" high was raised to 
elevate the gun. 
The magazines at Elorisdorff were in traverses, at Wibourg beneath the 
terreplein and covered by 7 ft. of earth. 
Eree access to, and free circulation on the ramparts was much more 
carefully provided for in Einland than in the redoubts near Yienna. 
To sum up, the Eussian system develops better artillery fire, allows a 
freer movement of the garrison within the work, owing to breadth of berm 
and large size of glacis the parapet is less easily damaged, the ditch is a real 
obstacle, the magazines are safer. The Austrian redoubts have the advantage 
of a retrenchment and of the cover galleries afford to the garrison. 
Speaking roughly, if the Eussian redoubts had their caponnieres and 
magazines constructed in wood, the expense of the two systems would 
probably be much the same. 
