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us by a sporting friend, who requested our views on the novel as 

 well as rather startling results. 



In conclusion, we beg to remind our readers that we have not 

 denied, nor have we attempted to disprove, any of the conclusions 

 arrived at by the commodore ; we have only endeavored to explain 

 some of these results, and to show that they do not, in our judg- 

 ment, affect the operations of sporting -guns, nor are they suffi- 

 ciently conclusive to change our old-fashioned views on this sub- 

 ject. As far as the experiments go, they are quite satisfactory; 

 and they certainly have developed some rather strange phenomena, 

 at all events have given rise to some very new ideas in reference 

 to the matter, which we doubt not will prove hereafter of much 

 practical utility in "gunnery." 



