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with detonating guns ! ! till he very lately discovered 

 an improvement in percussion powder that would 

 make them shoot as strong as flint guns, with little 

 or no injury to the iron ; and that he should very 

 soon put it in general circulation. I think it right 

 to name this, because I have great confidence in his 

 talent, though all I can yet say is, that I wish he 

 may succeed. * 



SHOOTING, 



Difference in, hetween a Flint and a Detonater. 



HERE we come to a part of the subject, the very 

 title of which, in the present day, would soon clear 

 off an edition of a pamphlet : and it therefore becomes 

 a matter of surprise that the book manufacturers 

 have not been more on the alert in reaping a harvest 

 from it ; as this fashionable theme, if well diluted 

 with anecdotes and specifications, might be spun into 

 a good-sized volume. All that is really wanted, how- 

 ever, is the essence of the subject, and therefore I 

 shall make my humble attempt to give it. 



As a detonater goes so very much quicker than a 

 flint, it becomes necessary, in firing one, to avoid 

 shooting too forward ; and I should, therefore, revert 

 to my former hints for young men learning to shoot, 

 and say, observe precisely all that I before said 

 under the head of shooting, but IF YOU HAVE A 

 DETONATER make only HALF the allowance ; that 



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