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process of manufacturing ; which could never be the 

 case with shot that had arsenic in its composition. 



This must, of course, tend to make the charge lie 

 with more precision in the barrel, and consequently 

 be more evenly dispersed in and round the object. 



%* Before this article first went to press, I made a point of 

 procuring, for examination, a sample of the new shot, and then of 

 going down to Messrs. Walker and Co.'s manufactory expressly 

 to ascertain all particulars as to its advantages : consequently I 

 did not begin writing on the subject from the mere ipse dixit of 

 Mr. Manton. I have since, however, used this shot, for the only 

 fortnight that I took up a gun last season, and, as I never shot 

 better, or made more long shots since detonators have been the 

 order of the day, I have every reason to speak well of it. The 

 number of shots tried I do not remember ; but I have a me- 

 morandum of killing 207 head of game in six days (though a 

 part of each day was devoted to some extraordinary sport in 

 trout fishing, owing to damp windy wvttlker;) consequently, I 

 may venture to say that 1 have given this shot a pretty fair trial, 



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