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dier ; and, provided the barrel of the rifle 

 shall weigh nine pounds, the Avhole gun will 

 not be heavier than a musket. I carrj=^ a 

 double gun, all day, when shooting, which 

 weighs very near nine pounds, and I find 

 no inconvenience fi'om the weight of it. 



I again request those gentlemen, be- 

 longing to the rifle companies in London, 

 who may have rifles, the barrels of which 

 have sufficient substance to withstand the 

 weight of the balls without recoiling, to fire 

 three. balls at one hundred yards, and two 

 balls at tw^o hundred yards, each ball sepa- 

 rately rammed down with a greased patch, 

 at a large piece of canvas, that they may 

 be convinced what wonderful destruction 

 two, and three balls, will make in the ranks 

 of an enemy. Thus every rifleman should 

 act, (at particular times,) before the enemy, 

 and especially when the enemy is beaten, 

 and retreating, in large solid bodies, without 

 order or regularity.* 



* The readei' is requested to observe, that the gun, 

 which I describe in the plan, to arii? a corps of sol- 

 diers with, is a distinct, particular, and (as I call li) an 



