60 DETONATING SYSTEM. 



versally adopt them, but to employ people, who will 

 write any thing for so much a sheet, to overrate them 

 to the credulous, through the medium of some pub- 

 lication or other. Let the reader, however, put down all 

 that I have said, or that others, in argument against 

 me, may say, as nothing ; and only take a walk to some 

 field with a few flint-guns and detonaters, of equal sizes, 

 and fairly try them at two or three quires of paper, and 

 then let his opinion be guided by facts instead of words. 

 In the mean time, I will proceed to repeat the same 

 trials that I gave in the earlier editions. 



" TRIAL on the 8th of November, 1822, of a 171bs. 

 Joseph Manton duck-gun, at fifty yards, loaded with 

 four ounces of B. B. shot, and rather more than an equal 

 measure of fine cylinder-powder, at a sheet of paste- 

 board, and twelve sheets of thick brown paper, which 

 presented a target of 28 by 22 inches in size. 



" WITH FLINT-LOCK. 



In the first sheet. Through the pasteboard 



and the twrlfth sheet. 



" Round 1 . .54 . .54 



2 . .45 . .41 



3 . .38 . .37 



Total 137 132 



" WITH DETONATING LOCK. 



In the first sheet Through the pasteboard 



and the twelfth sheet. 



" Round 1 . .30 . .34 



2 . .43 . .40 



3 . .30 . . 30 



Total 109 104 



