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artillery, which, as a whole at least, is not likely to be placed in reserve 
and used as reserve proper, to which alone the term is applicable. 
Similarly, the term “ massing ” guns is applied to concentration of 
guns, and may or may not be intended to include concentration of 
fire—sometimes it is even applied to the latter without including the 
former ; it would be better, we think, though its object is usually, more 
or less, concentration of fire, to restrict it to the simple meaning of the 
word—concentration of guns—leaving such further explanation as 
the occasion might require to be added. 
Sheffield, 
March, 1880. 
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