ACCOUNT OP TWO MUSQUET8. J 27 



fulted. I fhould fuppofe them to have been made about a 

 century ago. Neither of them is in good condition. 



One of thefe pieces is conftru&ed precifely on the principle, One refembles 

 and with the fame parts, as the piftol belonging to Lord Ca-^ s C ^ o e |' 

 melford, which was defcribed in our laft Volume, page 250, 

 but the workmanfhip is not fo good. The chamber piece is of 

 brafs, and the barrel is 30| inches long. I think the maga- 

 zine would hold nine or ten balls. 



The fecond piece is on a different conftruclion. It feems Defcrlption of 

 to have been invented before the other, probably by the fame Mother. j t 

 perfon. The barrel, which is 39 inches long, has no breech primes at once* 

 pin, but is perforated clearly through. The ufual charge of 

 powder and ball is lodged in a feparate iron cylinder, (Fig. 3, 

 Plate VIII.) two inches and three quarters long, and of the 

 fame bore as that of the piece itfelf, namely a little more than 

 half an inch, or 0.54 inch. The metal of this cylinder is about Defcrlption of a 

 one twelfth of an inch thick, and it is lodged for actual fervice ?uic1c firing* 

 in the pofterior part of the bore of the gun, which is enlarged 

 for the purpofe of receiving it (fee Fig. 2, letter G.) The 

 gun is provided with five of thefe cylinders, four of which are 

 lodged in cells in the flock ready for ufe, while the fifth is 

 fuppofed to be placed in the gun itfelf. There is a touch hole 

 in the cylinder which anfwers to another in the barrel that 

 opens into the pan ; and this laft is a cylinder fixed to the bar- 

 rel itfelf, having an excavation on its upper furface for lodg- 

 ing the priming (B, Fig. 1 and 2.) Immediately behind the 

 breech end of the barrel there is a receptacle in the ftock, or 

 rather in the barrel itfelf (E), for lodging the charged cylinder 

 previous to Aiding it into the chamber of the barrel. It is to 

 be obferved, that the metal of the barrel is continued back 

 four inches farther than the termination of the bore, and that 

 it is in this ftrong metallic part that the receptacle E is made. 

 The lock itfelf is attached to the piece by having the part im- 

 mediately beneath the (hutting face of the hammer, fitted upon 

 the fixed cylindrical pan B, and fecured by an end fcrew fo as 

 to move round upon that cylinder. So that it is to be under- 

 stood, that the lock plate can either remain in the ufual por- 

 tion, or may be brought up to a polition in which its length 

 fhall be rather more than at right angles with the length of the 

 barrel, as in the line H. In this laft pofition the priming is 

 given, and the piece cocked exactly by the fame means as in 



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