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The publication of this book was undertaken with a view of providing a text-book suitable for beginners in the subject of Military Sketching.
To the original book has been added chapters on Map Reading and Landscape Sketching.
The diagrams in the first seven chapters were executed by Captain P. A. Larned, 10th Infantry.
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