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INDEX. 



G I'ouse — continued. 



confounded with Prairie Chicken, 

 145. 



their gradual destruction, 145. 



incubation and drumming, 146. 



their battles and migrations, 147. 



flight of the, 148. 



habits, 149. 



tlieir tlesh poisonous, 149. 



enemies of the, 150. 



their flesh, 150. 



a feast of English, 151. 



modes of shooting, 151. 



treeing, 152. 



shooting, with a setter, 153. 



snares, etc., 154. 

 Gun — 



selecting a, 49. 



handling the, 49. 



nicety of shooting with, 51. 



exploits with, 51. 



proper handling of, 57. 



never beat bushes with, 60. 



cannot be too careful with, 60. 



importance of clean, 386. 



to clean, 396. 



properly loading, 414. 



Greener's remarks on, 415. 



size and bore of, 416. 



bursting of, 418. 



experiments on recoil, 418. 



recoil in, 424. 



Commodore Stockton's experiments 



on recoil, 426. 

 authors' views, 427. 

 its vai-ious parts, 483. 

 second-rate, 433. 

 when first invented, 433. 

 in the reign of Elizabeth, 433. 

 in the reign of Henry VIII., 433. 

 in the reign of Edwai'd III., 433. 

 made in England, 433. 

 made in Philadelphia, 433. 

 made in New York, 433. 

 various parts of a, 435. 

 AVestley Richards, celebrated ma- 

 ker of, 439. 

 made in America, 439. 

 made in England, 439. 

 description of an imported, 439. 

 bill of a, imported from England, 



440. 

 necessity of a good, 440. 

 made in Germany, 441. 

 made in New York, 441. 

 made in Philadelphia, 442. 

 welding barrels, 443. 

 hammer-hardening, 444. 

 boring, 444. 

 grinding, 445. 

 turning, 445. 



Gun — contmucd. 



brazing and breeching, 446. 



Greener's remarks, 446. 



proving barrels, 447. 



forgery of the proof-marks, 447. 



Spanish barrels, 448. 



French barrels, 448. 



sham-dam guns, 448. 



pai-k-palings, 448. 



made for the African market^ 



448. 

 staining barrels, 449. 

 metal used in the manufacture, 449. 

 materials from which made, 450. 

 care and labor bestowed npou, 



451. 

 deceptions practised, 452. 

 spurious, 452. 



wire-twist for manufacturing, 453, 

 Damascus barrels, 455. 

 charcoal iron, 455. 

 other kinds of metal used, 455. 

 wood for stocking, 456. 

 staining woods for stocking, 456. 

 Gunpowder, discovery of, 406. 



to whom attributed, 406. 

 known to the Chinese, 406. 

 English, Scotch, and French, 



406. 

 Dupont's, 407. 

 varieties of, 407. 

 what kind preferred, 408. 

 anecdote, 408. 

 glazed and un glazed, 410. 

 tests for, 411. 

 epreuvette, or powder- 



prover, 411. 

 to preserve from moisture, 



412. 

 impure, 413. 

 to dry damp, 414. 

 discovery and introduction, 



429. 

 well known to the ancients, 



429. 

 remarks of Uffano on, 429. 

 use of, in China, 429. 

 used by King Vitney, 430. 

 referred to by Philostratus, 



430. 

 used by the Oxydracse, 430. 

 deters Alexander the Great, 



430. 

 employed against Hercules, 



430. 

 employed against Bacchus, 



430. 

 used in India, 430. 

 known to Friar Bacon, 430. 

 mentioned in the Opus Ma- 

 gus, 430. 



