U3 ACCOUNT OF TWO MUSO.UETS. 



Dsfcription of a Lord Camelford's piftol, excepting that here the lock itfelf 

 quick U firing. performs the motion, inftead of the cylinder that carries the 

 pan, which continues unmoved. In Fig. 1 . the flud D pro- 

 ceeding from the barrel reacts upon the hammer, and (huts it 

 at the fame time that the flat bar proceeding from the cock 

 comes to reft on a notch in the barrel, and caufes it to acquire 

 the pofition of full-cock. Fig. 2. is a fection of the' barrel feen 

 endwife, and of the lock railed up. When the lock, and the 

 piece to which it is fixed are returned to the ufual fituation, 

 the receptacle E is filled by a folid piece of iron, which forms 

 a portion of AC, and effectually refifts the recoil which the 

 piece C would otherwife undergo. At A is a catch that ferves 

 to fecure the lock and apparatus in the laft-mentioned pofition ; 

 but when the gun has been difcharged, and the fubfequent 

 operations are to be relumed, that catch is drawn back, and 

 the fpring C throws the appparatus of the lock a little way up, 

 in order that it may be then raifed, and the empty charge- 

 piece taken out and another put in, &c. 



It may perhaps be confidered as loofe conjecture to fuppofe 

 thefe guns were originally invented by the Marquis of Wor- 

 cefter, whofe " Century of Inventions" was publifhed about 

 1655, and hath fince been reprinted by various publifhers, 

 and in periodical works. Out of this work I copy the follow- 

 ing, which will at leaf! amufe the reader. 

 Accounts of in- « 58. How to make a piftol difcharge a dozen times with 

 quick firing by ° n c e loading, and without fo much as once new priming requi- 

 thc Marquis of fite, or to change it out of one hand into the other, and flop 

 Worcelter - one's horfe." 



This feems to have been the piftol of Lord Camelford be- 

 fore defcribed in our Journal, and the firft of the guns here 

 mentioned. 



'*. 69. Another way as faft and effectual, but more proper 

 for carabines. 



" 70. A way with a flafk appropriated unto it, which will 

 furnifh either piftol or carabine with a dozen charges in three 

 minutes time, to do the execution of a dozen fhots as foon as 

 one pleafeth proportionably. 



"71. A third way, and particular for mufquets, without 

 taking them from their refts to charge or prime, to a like exe- 

 cution, and as faft as the flafk, the mufquet containing but 

 one charge at a time." 



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