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Hawker's ducking-powder, manufactured by Curtis and 

 Harvey, is the best in the world, and can be procured 

 of Mr. Brough, in Fulton Street, New York will do its 

 work satisfactorily and cleanly at sixty yards, or with 

 Eley's green, wire cartridges, which w r ill permit the use 

 of shot one size smaller, at thirty yards farther. The 

 utility of these admirable projectiles can hardly be over- 

 rated ; next to the copper-cap, of which Starkey's water- 

 proof, central-fire, is the best form, I regard them as the 

 greatest of modern inventions in the art of gunnery. 



Such a gun as I describe can be furnished of first-rate 

 quality by Mr. John Krider of Philadelphia, Mr. John, 

 or Patrick Mullin of New York, or Mr. Henry T. Cooper 

 of the same city, ranging in price, according to finish, 

 from one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars, of 

 domestic manufacture ; and I would strongly recommend 

 sportsmen, requiring such an implement, to apply to one 

 of these excellent and conscientious makers, rather than 

 even to import a London gun, much more than to pur- 

 chase at a hazard the miserable and dangerous Birming- 

 ham trash, manufactured of three-penny skelp or sham- 

 damn-iron, got up in handsome velvet-lined mahogany 

 cases, and tricked out with varnish and gimcrackery ex- 

 pressly for the American market, such as are offered for 

 sale at every hardware shop in the country. 



The selling of such goods ought to be made by law a 

 high misdemeanor, and a fatal accident occurring by 



