Excerpt from Reports Upon Seacoast Defenses; The Board of Engineers; And Technical Details of Engineering Methods on Fortifications, Rivers and Harbors, and Other Works: Being Extracts From the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1904 The total number of emplacements of every kind provided for to date by all appropriations is as follows: In this total are included seventy -inch rapid-fire guns on mov able mounts not requiring permanent emplacements, temporary emplacements for twenty-one'8-inch B. L. Rifles on modified 15-inch carriages, one temporary emplacement for 47-inch rapid-fire gun, five temporary emplacements for 8-inch guns on nondisappearing carriages, and the emplacement for the original experimental 10 - inch disappear ing carriage. The foregoing temporary emplacements were built during the war with Spain from the National Defense funds. The 8-inch guns will be transferred from time to time to permanent emplacements as these are completed, and a number of them have already been so transferred. While it is proposed eventually to dis arm these temporary emplacements, they can again be used in case of emergency, and have for this reason been included in the foregoing enumerations. The status of emplacements for which funds have been provided by Congress is as follows at the close of the fiscal year. 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.