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two hundred yards, will act with tolerable 

 precision. Make a trial of it. 



I shall now pass over rifle-shooting ; but B^^if'^aiSd* 

 not without some remarks on a most ifige- If^^'conltdSl 

 7iious hook, lately published, entitled Scloppe- Nature and 

 tar la; or. Consider atioJis on the Nature and ^"°^- 

 Use of Rijlcd'barrel Guns : by a Corporal 

 of Riflemen, The perusal of this book has 

 given me much pleasure, and great satis- 

 faction, where the author states practical 

 facts ; for it proves to me to what perfec- 

 tion the art of making rifled guns is arrived, 

 and w ith what unerring skill a skilful marks- 

 man shoots. I meun by this to refer to 

 the copper-plates ; first, at page 86, where 

 there is very good shooting proved; but 

 when I advance to page 119, I am asto- 

 nished at the excellence of the workman 

 who made the gun, and at the superior 

 skill of the rifleman. In the lower target, 

 page 119, I fmd, at the distance of two 

 hundred and fifty yards, that eight shots in 

 twelve are concentrated in the small space 

 often inches; to which I beg leave to add 

 two more, for they absolutely touch the 

 edsfe of the ten-inch circle. This is shoot- 



