The above Plate shows a Round Wall Tent, much used in India and other hot climates, being more convenient, but at the same time considerably heavier, than the regulation tents. It is also much more liable to be blown down.

The Plate on page 169 shows the Marquee of an officer commanding a regiment, or an Indian Mess Tent. It makes a great show in a camp, and is very spacious and comfortable dining in, but sometimes comes to grief in a storm.

The Plate on page 170 shows the tent much used by the French army during the campaign in the Crimea. In fine weather it is far more commodious than the English Regulation Bell Tent, but it is not so comfortable in wet weather, and is considerably heavier, weighing 160 lbs. It makes a very nice tent for a pic-nic, or for a lawn.

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The Plate on page 171 shows a very convenient little tent for shooting on the moors, but it will not stand heavy weather. It holds two persons very comfortably.

The two Plates, pages 173 and 174, show B. Edgington's Military Tent, which is superior in every respect to that now in use

B. Edgington's

Improved Mili- in the British army. It is 14 feet tary Tent. 6 inches square, with porches at each end projecting 6 feet, and sustained by light 6-feet poles, protecting the entrance from rain. The figure is a pyramid, and the angles are strengthened from the head of the tent by an inch rope, to which the canvas is bolted, and which, being secured by strong iron pegs to the ground, constitutes the principal support of the tent. "The ventilation" is at the top, the aperture being secured against the entrance of rain. The centre pole is divided into three parts-the small poles into two, and the whole (including poles, pegs, and every requisite) is packed in two