250 MAGAZINE PISTOL. 



This method is fhorter than that of the anagrammatic fcale, 

 and is preferable when there is much to write; but it is lefs 

 fecure, and requires a more complicated apparatus. 



XL 



Dcfcription of a Magazine Piflol, which when loaded is capable of 

 being difcharged Nine fuccejive Times through the fame Barrel. 

 W.N.' 



Account of a 1 AM indebted to the liberality of the Right Honourable Lord 

 magaxine piftol. Camelford for the accurate drawings of the curious and valu- 

 able piece which forms the fubject of the prefent Memoir, as 

 well as for permiffion to ufe and examine it in any manner I 

 might think proper. It is of German make ; the workman- 

 fhip very good, and it has been ufed by his Lordfhip without 

 any particular care in various parts of the world. Its con- 

 struction does, in effect, Ihew that its ufe is attended with 

 neither danger nor uncertainty ; but I fhall poflpone my re- 

 marks till I have given the defcription. 

 Pefcrlption by Figs. 1 and 4 in the Plates XIV. and XV. exhibit views of 



SSSgs".* ^ the two fldes of the P iftoL Fi S* 5 ' is a feaion t0 fhew the 

 magazines, and Figs. 2. and 3. (hew what may be called the 



chamber piece. The large face of this laft (Fig. 2.) is (lightly 

 taper or conical from X towards Y, where the diameter is fmal- 

 left, and the fmall part JB is cylindrical, excepting that a por- 

 tion is fc.ooped out on one fide marked by the dark fpace D 

 in Fig. 3. Its proper place in the piftol is in the breech, 

 eroding the line of direction at right angles. When the lock 

 is off, it goes into its cell from the fide Fig. 1. which it fits 

 with confiderable accuracy, but does not come to rub hard, 

 becaufe the Plate X forms a projecting face which ftops it. 

 In this fituation its fmall cylindrical part B projects outwards, 

 and is received in an hole of the fame diameter in that part of 

 the lock beneath the hammer where the pan is ufually placed. 

 In fact, the cavity D, Fig. 3. does conftitute the pan when 

 its pofition is fuch as to be immediately beneath the covering 

 face of the hammer. The fcrew B which goes into the cy- 

 lindrical piece, and Z, which goes into the ftock, are the 

 faflenings by which the lock is fecured. At the oppofite end 



A, 



