DETONATING SYSTEM. 61 



" Majority in favour of the flint in the aggregate of 

 three rounds. 



In the first sheet. Through the pasteboard 



and the twelfth sheet. 



" With flint-lock .137 132 



Detonating lock . 109 . . - 104 



Majority 28 28 



" One round, as above, with No. 1 shot : 

 "WITH DETONATING LOCK. 



In the first sheet. Through all. 



75 . . .64 



" A round from one of the best fourteen gauge double 

 detonaters in the kingdom, made by Mr. Joseph Manton, 

 with No. 1 shot, as above (with wadding cut by his new 

 dented punch on both powder and shot) ; in order to 

 show, that even the very best small guns will not throw 

 large shot like duck-guns : 



In the first sheet. Through all. 



35 . . v . . ' 30 



" A second round from the same barrel (loaded with 

 wadding cut by a common punch on the powder, and 

 wadding cut by a dented punch on the shot) : 



In the first sheet Through all. 



40 -..- ., . ., . 36 



" From the result of very many experiments, Col. 

 Hawker is of opinion, that for neat shooting in the 

 field, or covert, and also for killing single shots at wild- 

 fowl, rapidly flying, and particularly by night, there is 

 not a question in favour of the detonater, as its trifling 

 inferiority to the flint is tenfold repaid by the wonderful 

 accuracy it gives in so readily obeying the eye. But, 

 in firing a heavy charge among a large flock of birds, 



