THE BARREL. 



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will be found. Its surface, when browned, is as shown 

 below, having been copied from one of Mr. Pape's guns, 

 which was shot in the trial of 1859. 



lig. /3. 



LAMINATED IRON. (lIALP SIZE.) 



This kind of iron is also used in a slightly different form, 

 known as " angularly laminated," but there is so little to 

 distinguish the one from the other in any respect, that I 

 need scarcely enlarge upon it. What is called " fancy steel " 

 is also a sub-variety of laminated steel, and should not be 

 considered a distinct kind. 



Stub Damascus is often called " steel," but it is really a 

 mixture of the two kinds, and is the weakest of the four in- 

 cluded in this division. It is made from old files reduced to 

 a coarse powder, and then fused together with a larger pro- 

 portion of stub-iron, after which it is rolled into rods, and 

 twisted in the same way as the Damascus. Its appearance 

 when made up is given in the annexed engraving, which is 



STUB DAMASCUS. (HALF SIZE. 



