CAVALRY CARBINE. 95 



It can be loaded with great rapidity with the 

 impossibility of any accident occurring, does not 

 foul after heavy firing, is of great penetration, 

 and, at long ranges, great accuracy of shooting 

 can be obtained. 



The total absence of foulness was satisfactorily 

 proved by the experiments made by Government, 

 when several hundred rounds were fired from 

 this system without cleaning, and there was no 

 more foulness in the barrel or greater recoil ex- 

 perienced in the last shot than the second. 



This is easily accounted for, as the greased 

 wad that lubricates the barrel at every discharge 

 is of two sizes larger than the diameter of the 

 barrel at the muzzle ; consequently, whatever 

 remains of the exploded powder or paper from 

 the cartridge of the last shot is driven out of the 

 barrel by the succeeding one. 



For seven years in succession the chief prizes 

 for breech-loading arms have been carried off 

 by Mr. "Westley Richards' rifles, which proves 

 their extreme accuracy of shooting. 



