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shape of the ground, to impress on him the points he should report on 
from an artillery point of view and teach him to find his way about with 
the aid of a map if employed on isolated duty. 
An officer sent with three or four trained men to report on positions 
suitable for artillery might divide up the ground for each man, giving 
him an outline sketch of a certain section with the principal points 
marked and instructing him to fill in necessary details. 
Or, similarly, an outline of two or three miles of road may be given 
him to report on. 
Artillery scouts would scarcely be likely to be called on to do much 
sketching of entirely new ground and some principal points and dis¬ 
tances would usually be available to assist them. 
Their work would rather take the form of reporting on ground, the 
general formation of which is already known, filling in the necessary 
detail from an artillery point of view, partly in the form of writing 
and partly in the form of a sketch. 
For ordinary use a large note-book, compass, ruler and black pencil 
should be sufficient. The note-book should be about the size of the 
message book supplied for army signalling', such as Army Book, 295 (A), 
but it would be more suitable if of better paper and if each leaf could be 
readily torn out. The compass should be of the pattern which can be 
clamped to the note-book at one side. 
This would allow details of the sketch to be filled in with the ruler 
in a similar manner to the cavalry sketching-case and also admit of 
rough bearings being taken. 
The ruler could be marked with the scale in use, usually three inches 
to a mile. 
Contouring is not adapted to this form of rough work; a system 
of vertical pencil strokes is suggested as more rapid and requiring 
little skill in execution. 
If the slopes are too steep for guns a note to this effect in the margin 
or on the face of the sketch would suffice. 
A short description of the view from the crest of a position, giving 
exactly what is visible in the field of fire, will be of great value from 
an artillery point of view. Especially is this the case in the event of 
a scout being barred from advancing any further than the crest by the 
enemy’s patrols. 
It is suggested that ordinary roads, passable for artillery, should be 
represented by a single thick pencil line, as this would be easier and 
quicker to draw than the usual two lines. Paths and tracks impass¬ 
able for guns might be represented by a thick dotted line; enclosures, 
hedge-rows and such like to be represented by ordinary fine pencil 
lines; houses in black pencil and woods represented by the conventional 
sign for trees here and there. 
These would be the only conventional signs used, any special infor¬ 
mation about the road, whether fenced or unfenced, its width, &c., being 
noted in the margin or on the sketch if it did not overcrowd it. & 
It is essential that the men should be able to read maps and under¬ 
stand the conventional signs and the use of the north point. The l" 
