Shooting, Moor and Marsh, 4th ed. (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1893)
Walsingham, Lord, Gallwey, Ralph Payne Sir, Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 40
GROUSE. 19 for the sake of safety, they should be in true line with each other ; eighty or a hundred yards is a fair distance to separate them.! Where, owing to any inequalities in the ground, one battery is not distinctly visible from the next one to it, a turf wall should be erected half-way… … would, for example, be the case if batteries were built in ¢xposed positions on the summit of a hill. Birds coming up the hill ‘towards them would inevitably see the smoke of the guns and the heads of the shooters, and many would turn back over the ‘drivers. On one occasion, at High Force, the…
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