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(in reality) 684 Ibs., 356 from long guns, and 328 

 from her carronades, and the United States 102 Ibs. 

 more from her carronades. Remembering the dif 

 ference between long guns and carronades, and con 

 sidering sixteen of the 74/8 long i8's as being re 

 placed by 42-pound carronades 36 (so as to get the 

 metal on the ships distributed in similar proportions 

 between the two styles of cannon), we get as the 

 74's broadside 592 Ibs. from long guns, and 632 

 from carronades. The United States threw nomin 

 ally 360 and 486, and the Constitution nominally 

 360 and 352 ; so the 74 was superior even to the 

 former nominally about as three is to two; while 

 the Constitution, if "a line-of-battle ship," was dis 

 guised to such a degree that she was in reality of but 

 little more than one half the force of one of the 

 smallest true liners England possessed! 



36 That this change would leave the force about as it was, 

 can be gathered from the fact that the Adams and John 

 Adams, both of which had been armed with 42-pound car 

 ronades (which were sent to Sackett's Harbor), had them 

 replaced by long and medium i8-pounders, the?e being con 

 sidered to be more formidable; so that the substitution of 42- 

 pound caronnades would, if anything, reduce the force of 

 the 74- 



