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Herforth <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:33:44 -0400
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Nd. That he was very probably familiar with the application of such
chemical detonating agents has already been suggested. In another
number, he suggests the application of this principle to 'carbines.' So
in No. LXII, he proposes 'a way for a harquebuss, a crock, or ship
musket, six upon a carriage, shooting with such expedition as, without
danger, one may charge, level, and discharge them sixty times in a
minute of an hour, two or three together.' To which he adds the
following: 'No. LXIV.--A seventh, tried and approved before the late
king (of ever blessed memory), and an hundred lords and commons, in a
cannon of eight inches and half a quarter, to shoot bullets of
sixty-four pounds weight, and twenty-four pounds of powder, twenty times
in six minutes; so clear from danger, that after all were discharged, a
pound of butter did not melt, being laid upon the cannon britch, nor the
green oil discoloured that was first anointed and used between the
barrel thereof, and the engine having never in it, nor within six foot,
but one charge at a time.' Several improvements of this kind are

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