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wliat I mean, and it can be seen that the work could not be held until both 
the barracks under the ramparts and the keep were destroyed. 
Fig-. 1.—Plan. 
Fig. 2.—Section and Elevation. 
The above is a copy of a sketch which I made of one of the new outworks 
of Mayence, and it will, I trust, prove a suitable example to illustrate what 
I intended to convey* 
The next work which I had an opportunity of visiting was Metz—a good 
type of the French school of fortification, and one which held, as is well 
known, a high reputation as a French fortress. 
I must confess to a strong feeling of disappointment as I first entered the 
town and visited the ramparts constructed for an artillery of a past age, and 
saw the enormous amount of work expended in developing a defence so 
ill-adapted to the accurate and long-range fire of the rifled ordnance and small- 
arms of the present day. The general outline of Metz can be seen from the 
accompanying sketch (Fig. 3); and I have only time here to deal with one or two 
