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must be remarked that he shot with very 

 large shot. No. 2, patent. I always shoot 

 with No. 2, from the first day to the last of 

 the season. 



Before I have quite done with guns, I 

 do most earnestly intreat such persons, into 

 whose hands, perchance, this production on 

 guns may fall, — if they have any influence 

 with the persons in public employ, — to 

 use their utmost influence with them, posi- 

 tively to command that no rifle, in future, 

 shall be made for our troops, the barrel of 

 which does not weigh full six younds, and 

 no ball larger than thirty to the pound. I 

 will suffer death if I deceive them. I 

 will explain further: the barrels of the Jl^^^^^^f^'g^^f 

 rifle-guns,, used by our regiments on ser- RiL^s'^^orser- 



. ^ 1 r 11 vice, and what 



Vice, weigh only tour pounds, and carry ^^^Y^^^wkh^ 

 a ball twenty to the pound. If you put half S^the'ku!*^ 

 the weight of the ball in powder, which 

 weighs twenty in the pound, into a barrel 

 weighing only four pounds, it will very 

 near knock the man down who fires the 

 rifle. And to make a rifle which carries 

 twenty balls to the pound, — to give the 

 barrel an additional weight, so as to give it 



