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at 300 yards, which will take up five times 

 more time in training the man than *my 

 gun and method will, and, after ail, when 

 you have taught him to fire tolerably well 

 at targets, at all the above distances, your 

 labour and time is all lost ; for, though he 

 will know which sight of the three he 

 should use, at all the above diiferent dis- 

 tances, when firing at a target, yet, take 

 him into the field, before an enem}^ he will 

 be as ignorant as ever respecting what pre- 

 cise distance the enemy is from him ; which 

 is the grand object to obtain, and most 

 particularly in broken ground, or firing 

 from one height at an enemy on another 

 height, or from a height down to an enemy 

 on the plain. With my gun he can fire 

 without ever troubling his head what parti- 

 cular distance the enemy is from him. The 

 reader will pardon my reminding him 

 again, for I wish strongly to impress it on 

 his mind, that this gun, whenever it shall 

 be found necessary for the corps to stand 

 in the line, as a solid, regular, well-disci- 

 plined battalion in close order, or to act as 

 lio'ht-infantrv, can be loaded and fired v/ith 



