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send their order, for exactly such a piece as they require, 
accompanied by the precise measure of a stock which suits 
them, to Mr. Bishop of Bond Street, when they will pro- 
bably procure what will satisfy them, as well as the others 
would satisfy me, at afar lower price. What the exact 
price of Westley Richards’ best guns is at this moment, I 
do not accurately know; but I presume that it is from 
£30 to £35, from 150 to 175 dollars, with case and appur- 
tenances, not including freight or duties; which would 
bring his best work here to the price of two hundred dol- 
lars, more or less. Mr. Lang’s best double gun is stated 
by Stonehenge to be sold,in case complete, for £38, or 
190 dollars, cash on the spot; and he further asserts, that 
“ certainly it will be admitted that, for ‘all the essentials 
desired by the crack shot, Mr. Lang’s gun may lay claim 
to as high a standard as those of any of his rivals.” 
Besides Mr. Richards, there are other Birmingham 
makers, who turn out reputable work to order, and who 
are not to be confounded with the perpetrators of the 
detestable rubbish which finds its way into the United 
States, and is sold at almost every price from one dollar 
to one hundred. 
Every principal shire-town in England, or nearly so, 
has some maker of high, at least, local celebrity ; and some 
of these, as Parsons of Salisbury, Cartmel of Doncaster, 
Patrick of Liverpool, and others, whose names I do not 
remember, have become known and of good repute 
throughout England. Others have doubtless succeeded to 
these, since I have been a dweller in America, but little 
of their work has been, or is likely to be, imported; and 
