472 THE CENTURY, 



may charge fifty Cannons playing, 

 and flopping when he pleafeth, 

 though out of fight of the Cannon. 



[For guarding several advenues to a Town.~\ This 

 would appear to be no more than an extended applica 

 tion of the preceding invention. We can imagine that 

 Caspar Kaltoff executed a very beautiful model of this 

 piece of machinery, with its 50 little brass guns, 50 

 ramrods, &c., all worked simultaneously by a man 

 below, &quot;out of sight of the cannon;&quot; but it is very 

 unlikely that the Marquis would have recommended 

 its adoption ; it shows, however, how he persevered in 

 endeavours to abridge human labour. 



! - 67. 



A rare way likewife for musquet- 

 toons fattened to the Pummel of 

 the Saddle, fo that a Common 

 Trooper cannot mifie to charge 

 them, with twenty or thirty Bullets 

 at a time, even in full career. 



When firft I gave my thoughts to 

 make Guns Jhoot often, I thought 

 there had been but one only exquijite 

 way inventible, yet by fever al trials 

 and much charge I have perfectly 

 tried all thefe. 



[_For Musquettoons on horseback. ] The remark which 

 forms a postscript to this article, naturally leads to the 

 conclusion that the improvements in guns were among 

 the later inventions of the Marquis, perhaps about or 



