350 PUNT-GUN. 



happen through attempting to resist the force of 

 gunpowder. 



Having now, I trust, done my part towards ac- 

 complishing the object in question, I shall gladly 

 take leave of this dry subject, and resign to Mr. 

 Fullerd the trouble and the credit of all further 

 improvements, by way of a little exercise for his 

 brains. 



LOADING. 



THE charge should be about one pound of shot 

 (more or less, as you feel it), and an equal measure 

 (which is about two ounces) of powder ; and the 

 latter very strongly wadded, as before recommended. 

 The shot in a cartridge is very convenient, as is also 

 a little gunning-box, to keep the ammunition dry. 



For those who have a common breeching, the powder 

 may be put in, made up in a cartridge (one of flannel 

 is the safest), and pricked through the touch-hole, or, 

 if a detonater, through a good-sized vent-hole. But 

 as a gun of this kind can rarely ever be loaded im- 

 mediately, and as, therefore, it must be wiped well 

 out between every shot, it becomes quite immaterial 

 as to this, and as to loading machines, and all other 

 troublesome appendages. If you have a patent 

 breeching, which, of course, shoots best, take care to 

 have the centre-hole large, or at least in proportion 

 to another gun, or the coarse powder, which is by 

 far the best for this work, will be liable to lodge, 



