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of the explosion consequently was transmitted immediately to 

 the timber to which they were all attached, and consequently 

 occasioned the result arrived at by Commodore Stockton. 



Commodore Stockton's little pamphlet, the result of much 

 care and ingenuity on his part, in the prosecution of these 

 highly interesting experiments, requires no notice from us — it 

 speaks for itself; but we may be permitted to state that we 

 were led to this partial review of some of its points fi'om the 

 interest we felt in the subject, and from the circumstance of a 

 copy having been sent to 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 

 results arrived at by the Commodore ; we have only endea- 

 vored to explain some of these results, and to show that they 

 do not, in our judgment, (^{ffect the operations of sporting guns, 

 nor are they sufficiently conclusive to change our old-fashioned 

 views on this subject. As fiir 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, and which we 

 doubt not will prove hereafter of much practical utility in 

 " gunnery." 



