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cartridges as many times in one minute as 

 a common musket, and shall shoot, with 

 precision sufficient, to hit a target the size 

 of a man, every time, at 100 yards. Thus, 

 from the perfection and universal use of 

 my gun, it must, in candour, be allowed, 

 that it is equally adapted to regular batta- 

 lion soldiers, to light-infantry men, and to 

 the rifle marksmen ; in short it is an univer- 

 sal gu7i, equally to be applied and used by 

 every man who carries arms in war, from 

 the grenadier to the Indian savage. 



One grand preliminary in the formation 

 of such corps, is, that it be absolutely and 

 indispensably necessary, that one company 

 of 150 men be enlisted solely from artifi- 

 cers and workmen, namely, carpenters, saw- 

 yers, men who earn their daily bread by 

 felling trees, clearing and hewing down 

 coppices, together with some excellent 

 country spadesmen, who are well accus- 

 tomed and expert in throwing up ditches 

 and mounds, and wattling staked hedges. 

 Such a corps as I have above described, 

 cannot perform what ought to be, and will 

 be in justice required of them, without a 



