Excerpt from Papers on Subjects Connected With the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Vol. 19: Contributed by Officers of the Royal Engineers The total height from the beach to the level of the platforms in the case mates is about 48 ft and the rise of the tide is 18 ft. At high-water spring tides. The beach is very rocky, and, consequently, a passage had to be made by blasting, so that the lighter in which the guns were conveyed from the gun wharf might ground in the sand at the end of the pier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.