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series of experiments made by the Government. 

 In these trials, the accuracy of shooting was 

 better than that with the muzzle-loading ammu- 

 nition, and only three miss-fires occurred out of 

 the 10,000 rounds fired. 



The fouling from 1000 consecutive rounds did 

 not appreciably affect the accuracy of shooting 

 or facility of loading. 



After the cartridges had been immersed for 

 six days in very wet sawdust no miss-fires 

 occurred, and the loading was performed with 

 the greatest ease in every case. The cartridges 

 were bent, indented, and injured in various ways, 

 without affecting the ease of loading or accuracy 

 of shooting ; they were shaken loose in a soldier's 

 pouch for a month, and came out perfectly ser- 

 viceable, and they were subjected to different 

 atmospheric conditions artificially created with- 

 out sustaining any injury. 



As regards the safety of the Boxer cartridge, 

 Captain Majendie, in his lecture at the R. U. S. 

 Institution, stated as follows : 



