TERRY S BREECH-LOADING RIFLES. 11 



of any fire-arms without the test of actual 

 practice in the field. I may add, that the prin 

 ciple seems to me to be still more inapplicable 

 to military weapons than to sporting ones, as 

 the mechanism is far too complicated to stand 

 wear-and-tear and rough usage. I daresay the 

 authorities at the Horse Guards have since 

 found out this for themselves, as I understand 

 a number of these breech-loaders, in the form 

 of rifled carbines, were contracted for, for the 

 cavalry. 



The gale having abated, we sailed again on 

 the morning of the 17th, but the wind con 

 tinuing N.E. we had to beat the whole way 

 north, and did not reach Hammerfest until 

 the 23rd. 



