CARRIAGE FOR USING A STANCHION GUN 

 ON LAND. 



BEFORE we cross the channel, for France, we will 

 now look at the artillery. 



A stanchion gun may be fired from a carriage, that 

 can be wheeled over land ; which is much lighter than 

 a common loaded barrow. But, with this contrivance, 

 the person firing the gun must sit on the carriage and 

 rest his feet on the strap, so as to go back with it, other- 

 wise he would, by going directly behind it, stand a 

 chance of being knocked down; or, at all events, of 

 getting his shins broken. 



Having contrived one, which answers well, I here 

 give a representation of it, with directions for its ma- 

 nagement. 



