DUCK GUNS. 



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In comparison with the table of shots originally 

 given, I am now enabled to add, the performance of 

 a duck gun, made expressly to my order by Mr. 

 Joseph Manton, the barrel of which was prepared by 

 Lancaster. 



With four ounces and a half of No. 2 shot, well 

 shaken down, after being put in the barrel, and an 

 equal Measure of powder strongly wadded: 



The following table of a gun trial, which I have 

 just found among my papers, and which I perfectly 

 remember making (though I see it is without date, 

 and without the size of the target or the shot being 

 specified), may yet prove as well worth insertion as 

 any, because it plainly shows the decided advantage 

 in the increased size of guns. 



