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I have many times asked Hie American 

 back-woodsmen what was the most their 



rfred yards distant, which had been the heiglit of m 

 man, say five feet ten inches high, and, instead of 

 aiming at the bull's eye, I had aimed at the top of the 

 target, the same as at the top of the head of the figure of 

 a man, am T not entitled to sa}', that my ball would either 

 have struck the breast of that figure, or have passed by 

 on one side of the target, and full as high as the 

 breast of a man; and that it would not have struck the 

 sands, which lay on a direct level with the bottom of 

 the target, until it had reached a distance considerably 

 above four hundred yards ? I detest theory, but, 

 speaking to experienced riflemen, I do assert, that this 

 is not theory, but that it is plain demonstration, founded 

 on the truest principles of the knowledge and system 

 of projectiles. 



I desire it may be understood, that the gun, the 

 various merits of which I have described in tliis short 

 treatise, entitled " A Plan for the Jormation of a 

 " Corps which never has been raised as yet in any 

 *' amiyin Europe^ 3)C. S)C, SscT is not the oommon rifle 

 I speak of, which should be used with effect at long 

 distances, before an enemy; but a gun, very far supe- 

 rior, from its distinct and various qualities as it is 

 described to possess. The barrel of that gun, I sawed 

 inhalf, and threw the one half over Westminster bridge, 

 on one side, and the othsrhalf on the otner. rn^rv-e, 

 and in my breast, the construction of ^ucli a gun j^es. 



One word more before parting : n v/e have r.jt a 

 rifle on active service, which will shoot with precision 



