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Pooh Canoe, with Lessons in every way for Wigeon 

 Shooting, by night and day, at low water, and 

 half flood, &c 319 



GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS for Sea-coast Wildfowl 



Shooting, when afloat 325 



STANCHION OR PUNT-GUN 335 



New plan for Jiring 2lb. of Shot to the best advan- 

 tage^ and, at the same time, easing the recoil of a 

 Swivel-gun r 339 



EXPLANATION OF MY PL AN for easing the Recoil 

 of a Punt-gun ; or, a Ship's Swivel * (as used 

 in Merchantmen ; in Boats ; in the " tops" of 



Men of War; be.) 344 



Loading 350 



Firing 352 



GUNNING-PUNT, safe and proper for the use of a 



Stanchion-gun 355 



New plan for a Gunning-punt 357 



Shooting with a Stanchion-gun from a Punt; its 



Elevation by day or night 364 



Manoeuvring Curres, and other small Wildfowl; 

 also Geese, wild Swans, $c., with a disclosure of 

 all the secrets for getting at them in every way . . 366 



* In writing on this subject, I applied the word " carronade ;" 

 and, if improperly, it was, no doubt, through my land-lubber". 

 Jike misunderstanding, of naval friends to whom I submitted the 

 invention. For ships' swivels, the mode of easing the recoil, I 

 think, may be adapted as here shown; but for carronades, it 

 would, I presume, require a somewhat different construction. 



