88 DETONATING SYSTEM. 



give them an increased weight of metal, which to many 

 is a trouble to carry; retard the charge, and thus in- 

 crease the recoil ; and then I admit, with the very great 

 improvement that has lately been made in barrels, 

 they will no doubt even beat those flint-guns which 

 were manufactured a few years ago; but, without all 

 this, they would be found as inferior as ever to flint- 

 guns. 



