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GUMMURGE, in Geography, a town of —— depth, from whence ‘levels or- horizontal Galleries are car: 
in the cirear of Chandail ; 45 miles W.N.W. of Saip ried into the only good itratum which is known in that 
UMR Ay a town of Acfriéa, Sin Sahara, rosea diftrict ; but on the banks of the Seine, in the hillocks of 
‘el liceialion Meals’: 150 miles S. of Algiers, Rocheguyon, where the cliffs of chalks prefent broken pre- 
GUMSOOR, a town of Hindooftan, in = —— of cipices, the beds of flint are laid open to view: one of thefe 
Oriffas 80 miles S.W. ‘of Cattack. N. lat. 10° 45’. E. beds, which contains the good fort, is at about fix fathoms 
lone. 84° 4g’ diftance from the UPPS furface of the grent mals of 
GUN, a firé-arm or weapon of offence, which faecibly chalk. 
difcharges a ball, thot, or other offentive matter, through The characters by which the good flints are diftinguithed 
a cylindrical barrel, by means of gunpowder. from thofe lefs fit for being manufatured are e the follow- 
Gun is a general name, under ine are included divers, ing : 
or even molt fpecies ed fire-arms. ‘They may be divided’ f 
into tie and /mall, 
Pr hota ory an = svatit tad of is fee eo a8 inperfections. Good flint edaia feldom exceed the weight 
Gusrowner. of twenty pounds; nor are thofe that weigh lefs than one 
‘For nd oa and application of guns, fee Goseny and: 2hevenitwo pounds conlidered as being, of a good-quality 
ine Internally they fhould appear unctuous and rather fhining, 
Gos; "Bed of Se" Biv: ss a grain too fine to be perceptible to the eye. The 
“eth, Boring of. See Boring of CANNoN and Founpery. COlOUF May vary trom honey-yellow to blackith brown ;. but 
Gux, Carriage of. See Ca ARS ae tint fhould be uniform in the fame nodule. leir tran{pa- 
Guy, Charging of. See Cuarce and Cae rency fhould be fufficient to admit letters to be diltinguithed._ 
“Gon, Chafe. See Cuase guns: through a piece of the ftone of a quarter of a line th thick, 
Un, Evening, is generally a ‘eels pounder, that is 
fred ‘every night about fun-fet, and every morning at fun- 
rife, to give. ‘notice to the drums and trumpets of the army to ie : na : is the 
beat e Rene he Fetceat aiid the Kevalle. moit effential, fince on it depends the facility with which the 
aa rs UNS, E: eae of, denotes the peat of laying, loading, iit in any one of the above characters, either naturally 
- ing the Bn ns, at various diftances from the butt or or by a lon erpobers i to the air, are called intra@able, and- 
mark ; Ro bins recommends a more extenfive exercife “e jeéted b : Aiet : 
than that of firing with a conftant charze at two or three ae =} ill 
a ee oi Fly 
as of oa in ny facta are four in number: 1. A. 
with all Moc 2 ea Ft ee and deflections of pieces, fired hammer or mace of iron with a {quare head (PI. II. Grohey,: 
fhould 5. ei oS , ae as charge, elevation, and diftance, Jig- 1.)» the weight of which does not exceed two pounds ; 
sinitietp . een and the refult compared with the new (but it may be of half that weight only,) with a handle or 
eee a eee = under the article Gunnery, &e. See feyen or eight inches long. is tool is not made of fteel, 
for an excefs of hardnefs would render the ftrokes too hav 
i E rh ra in Re Mineraligy. The mode of ma- or dry (asthe phrafe is), and would fhatter.the —_ 
ais heres n-llints, as we have obferved in the article eames tend of eae them by a clear fra& 
T, has fora Jong time been involved in fable and myttery : . A hammer with two points ( Jig. 2.) cael is ghee 
= een in the Mémoires de l Académie de France, we of his fteel, as he Beate its weight does not exceed 
oiG, “ that there is never a deficiency of flints in thofe fixteen ounces ; indeed it may weigh ten ounces ae Its 
: ; that, as s foon asa handle is feven inches long, pafling through it in fuch a 
peerinin a; oe it as in manner that the points of the hammer are nearer the hand 
re bie FOr Years it is ae ir the Aints. are fone of the workman, than the centre of gravity of the mafs. 
ieee ah the fame circumftances as before.” The fame. ‘The form and fize of the hammers of different workmen. vary 
other ay = nop beaed in the French Encyclopédie, ae a little; but this difpofition of the points. is common to 
nade fy 3 and it was not till lately that we have been thém all, and is of coungurore to the force a certainty of 
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oy ee nograph on this fubject, written in the which paffes through a fquare hole in the centre. 
hey ag Se 4. A. chiflel tapering and bevilled at both extremities 
of St. Agen ce, the beft flints are found j ie the pelubhondhast: (jig: 4-), feven or eight inches long, and two inches wide, 
ne of Th Ts vin age Sing te of the Loir-et-Cher, and in made o is 1 not hardened: this is fet.on a block of wood, 
lis of Sein » t the ges time, ferves as abench for the work- 
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