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few months ago Terry's rifle was subjected to a 

 test by Captain Eichard Hewlett, of the Excellent 

 gunnery-ship, and one thousand eight hundred 

 rounds were fired without the carbine requiring to 

 be cleaned or missing fire. The same carbine was 

 tested on South Sea Common, by order of the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General the Hon. Sir 

 James Yorke Scarlett, and twenty-five rounds were 

 fired at three hundred yards' range from the butt ; 

 and the General himself made a centre hit. An 

 ofiicer on the ground, one of the instructors of 

 musketry, then took the instrument, and struck the 

 target afloat twice out of three times, at a distance 

 of one thousand and fifty yards ; yet the barrel is 

 but thirty inches in length." It is my opinion that 

 this rifle is one of the most serviceable weapons that 

 an Indian officer could possess, as it is a most for- 

 midable instrument, whether in the field, against an 

 enemy, or in the dense deep jungle, the haunts of 

 the tiger and the elephant. 



Arms are still in a transition state, and it is yet a 

 matter of doubt as to which principle is the best. 

 From the numerous experiments I have made and 

 witnessed, I consider that, for accuracy of fire, 

 nothing equals the system of Mr Joseph Whitworth 

 of Manchester, his rifle with the hexagonal bore and 

 elongated projectile having " distanced " every other 

 at long ranges in a course of experimental trials 

 lately made at the School of Musketry at Hythe ; 

 besides which the trajectory is lower than any other 



