teehy's beeech-loading rieles. 11 



of any fire-arms without tlie test of actual 

 practice in. the field. I may acid, that the prin- 

 ciple seems to me to be still more inapplicable 

 to military weapons than to sporting ones, as 

 the mechanism is far too complicated to stand 

 wear-and-tear and rough usage. I daresay the 

 authorities at the Horse Guards have since 

 found out this for themselves, as I understand 

 a number of these breech-loader s, in the form 

 of rifled carbines, were contracted for, for the 

 cavalry. 



The gale having abated, we sailed again on 

 the morning of the I7th, but the wind con- 

 tinuing N.E. we had to beat the whole way 

 north, and did not reach Hammerfest until 

 the 23rd. 



