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universal qualities as I have described, 

 namely, being capable of being loaded and 

 fired as many times in one minute, when 

 loaded with cartridges, as a soldier*s musket 

 can ; and may be fired with precision at 

 100 yards; v/hich gun also, at every dis- 

 tance, fi'om 100 to 300 yards, when used 

 by marksmen, shall fire with the same precl- 

 sion as the best rifle which can be made, — 

 I maintain that every soldier in his Majesty's 

 service would be infinitelj^ more formidable 

 before an enemv.* 



* Although I have said that everi/ soldier would be 

 benefited and more formidable before the enemy, if 

 armed with my gun, which I have described to possess 

 such eminent and universal qualities, yet I trust every 

 officer who peruses these few pages will do me more 

 justice than to suspect thai it ever entered into mj 

 mind, even for one instant of time, to lay aside the 

 musket and to arm the whole British army with 

 my gun : yet I must steadily persist in observing, that 

 all arms, which hereafter shall be ordered to be made 

 for the express and sole use of Ught-infantry or sharp- 

 shooters, should be constructed on the principles of my 

 gun; for it must appear evident to intelligent minds, 

 that, armed with such a gun, the soldier would possess 

 a very superior advantage over the enemy to what he 

 now does, armed as heii with a comiaou Tower musket, 



