346 STANCHION, OR PUNT-GUN. 



made a rough model for the inspection of himself and 

 friends. If, however, the Lords of the Admiralty 

 should honour me so far as to think the suggestion 

 worthy of notice, I have only to say that Mr. Westley 

 Richards, of Birmingham, is the mechanic who so ably 

 manufactured the one I have, after the model and in- 

 structions that I sent him. Indeed there is no one else 

 yet capable of executing the order. 



Here is an outline of the plan in question, which 

 has so amply repaid me for the trouble I have had, in 

 overcoming all obstacles, that I shall, under the next 

 head, give directions for it, assisted by explanatory en- 

 gravings. 



Before this gun, &c. was found to answer every pur- 

 pose, it went through several hands : Mr. D. Egg ; 

 Mr. Fullerd ; Mr. Joseph Manton ; Mr. Westley Ri- 

 chards ; Mr. Parsons, of Salisbury, and Mr. Long, of 

 Andover (now with Lancaster) ; besides journeymen in 

 my own employ ; and, consequently, as so many arti- 

 ficers have been separately occupied in completing it, 

 I may safely defy any one of them (before I publish 

 this edition) to turn out precisely the same kind of 

 article, until they have seen, and had explained to 

 them, this gun in Unfinished state. 



Since the 4th and 5th editions, I have tried the gun 

 and punt, in every possible way ; and no plan that I 

 had ever before seen was worthy of being compared to 

 this. I shall, THEREFORE, NOW GIVE engravings of 

 the WHOLE CONCERN ; by which means I shall secure 

 to myself the pleasure of being the first to publish what 

 has cost me much trouble to complete ; and which many 

 are now imperfectly copying, and may perhaps be 

 passing off for their own invention. 



