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was undersighted, or in odier words that the 

 result of my having altered the relative 

 positions of the sights to one another, or to 

 the eye, involved a considerable increase in 

 elevation. This, of course, I had not the 

 technical knowledge to foresee. The only 

 thing to be done was to have the sights 

 altered, and for this purpose I adjourned the 

 trials. I decided to have the backsight 

 raised, which, of course, was the easiest 

 thing to do ; but if I had it to do again, and 

 were in England at the time, I think I would 

 rather have the foresight lowered, for the 

 reason that the hioher the siorhts the greater 

 the error if the weapon is inadvertently held 

 in the least degree crooked. 



The original vertical heio["ht of the back- 

 sight above the barrels was exactly a quarter 

 of an inch; the new one was .325 inch. 



