teurt's breech-loading hifles. 11 



of any fire-arms without tlie test of actual 

 practice in tlie field. I may add, 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-loaders, 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. 



