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Professor of Military History at the Royal Military Academy 
will find leisure to publish a continuation of his interesting 
history. 
We will now turn the attention of the reader to the 
Oriental cannon, and it should be noticed that General 
Lefroy points out how these Indian and Russian ordnance 
were in all probability copied from Flemish originals. Com- 
paring the gun of Muhammad II., presented by the Sultan 
to the Queen in 1868, and now at Woolwich, with the 
Ghent Bombard, the General finds the dimensions, allowing 
for the necessary difference between wrought-iron and 
bronze, to correspond more closely than can be attributable © 
to accident, and this correspondence extends to the method 
of construction in both cases, the powder-chamber being a 
separate forging or casting, and screwed to the body. 
In proof of the family resemblance of all the great bom- 
bards which is so apparent on comparing drawings made to 
the same scale, General Lefroy subjoins the following table 
of their principal dimensions :— 
List oF GREAT BomBarDsS Now or LATELY EXTANT. 
Diameter. Length. 
Nature. Date. 
Bore. 
Over 
All 
Weight in tons 
Bore. 
Chamber 
Exterior. 
" ” ” " 
Before 5°3 Ig'0 5°75 30°0 9Q4'0 
” 
1970 
1423 3°3 1570 5°OI 220 80°0 36°0 156°0 
WrovuGutT-IRon :— 
English guns now *, A 
Mont Ss. Michel.. B 
as 
co = Chamber. 
° 
eee aee rt of ass 13'0 25° a = 39° 1272'0 56°0 197° 
Before 
Misas Mee, Edinburgh .f 1460 5°7 20°0 10°00 29°5 106°0 45'0 159'0 
BRONZE :— 
Cannon of Muhammad II., 
Woolwich... 1464 18°7 25°0 10°00 41°5 110'2 75°8 204°7 
Malik-I-Mydan, great Gun 
of Beejapore .. 
a 1548 40°0 285 16°00 57°0 93°'0 60°5 170°6 
Tzar Pooschka, great et 
of Moscow 1586 38°5 36°0 19°00 63°0 122°0 70°0 213°0 
Dhool Dhanee, great Gun 
of Agra 
1628 30°2 23°2 10°05 45°5 108°0 50°0 170°2 
The hugest piece of ordnance ever known to have existed 
was a celebrated cast-bronze piece at Agra, named the 
Zufr Bukh, Giver of Victory, which weighed fifty-two tons, 
according to the account extracted by Major-General 
Boileau, ia: from a pamphlet in the Hindoostanee lan- 
guage, by which the date of its fabrication appears to be 
anterior to A.H. 1037, t.¢. A.D. 1627. What has become of 
