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mere nothing in comparison with the retail price. Many 

 of the gunmakers are here supplied with all kinds of 

 turnscrews, brushes, tools, &c. Here are sold also 

 fishing-rods, reels, and almost every thing that can be 

 required in the sporting way, at about one-fifth of the 

 price that you pay in London. 



ELEVATION. 



As a proof of my original argument in favour of Joe 

 Manton's elevation, my readers need only observe how 

 universal it has now become with almost every gunmaker 

 in, and even out of, the kingdom. It would therefore 

 be a waste of time to reprint my former arguments in 

 support of it, particularly as I may substitute, in place 

 of them, something new on the subject. 



By further discoveries, I have pretty well proved 

 that all of us sportsmen, the whole trade, and even Joe 

 himself, have been somewhat in the dark about the 

 precise degree for this elevation ; and this is perhaps 

 the reason why many quacks have fancied that short 

 guns will kill the furthest. They talk nonsense ; but 

 still the short guns have often shown off best in the 

 field. Why is it? because the gunmakers regulate 

 their elevations to shoot well to the bull's eye ; whereas 

 they ought to shoot above the bull's eye ; and THE 



LONGER THE GUN, THE HIGHER MUST BE THE ELE- 

 VATION ! Let this be placarded as a golden rule for 

 every sportsman and every gunmaker in the kingdom. 

 Let me state a proof of this : I ordered a gun some 

 time ago, fourteen gauge and two feet ten barrels, and 

 selected Charles Lancaster as indisputably one of the 



