GUN 
By thi : the 
the angle, by which the axis of the piece ought to be ele- 
vated a 
to one-fourth of 
the different. goodnefs 
length of pieces producing that diverfity. Robins’s Tra&s, 
vol. i. p. 312, &c. 
. common mechanical method of direSting cannon to 
a given object, is to find the centre-line, or two points, one 
at the breech and the other at the muzzle, by a {mall inftru- 
and then applying the two 
he bafe centre to look behind them, till the 
muzzle centre be made to cut the centre of the obje& ; then 
ne piece is properly dire@ted : and having found the necef- 
ce elevation, place the centre of the quadrant in the bore, 
ind raife or 
eva . 
Guy, Proving of a. Sce Provinc. 
Rifle. See Rirxe. 
‘ Guns, Small, include fire-locks, mufkets, mufketoons, ca- 
underbuffes, fowling-pieces, &e. ° 
anc mortars are almott the only kinds of regular 
* bons; charged with gunpowder, that are excepted from 
the mation of guns, 
the article Fow.inG-piece was written, we have been 
able to colleé& fome further 
fy 
Fr ee : 
_ ,. ¥ adapted to reach the ante-chamber, the only 
= — which 8 to enable the workman to ak: the ante- 
as BB, the outfide circumference, which may be made 
hot ana" aMtages arifing from this breeching are, that the 
loci thrown im amore perfe& direction and with greater 
er Os that the barrel is much lefs fubjeQ to grow par- 
_ S car a ul: that guns on this principle, after being fired 20 
= 99 times, lofe very little of their force, in clita with 
deprefs the piece till the plummet cuts the re- fe 
GUN 
thofe of the old conftru@ion 3 that they are fafer, and 
of more inflantaneoufly; alfo, they inflame the whole of the 
wder. 
Gun-makers only diftinguifh two kinds of defe&s in their 
barrels ; the grey, and the crack i 
which we, 
flaw. 
? 
o 
By frequent trials with long and fhort guns, the latter are 
generally found to excel the former, if both guns are loaded 
with the fame charge of powder and fhot. For legal re- 
firitions with regard to the ufe of guns, fee the article 
Game. : 
Guns, Great, are called by the general name cannon, and 
make what we alfo call ordnance or artillery. See Cannon, 
Gun, Great, at Dover caftle, is a large brafs gun 24 feet. 
long without, and 22 feet in the bore, beautifully Bee with 
V. to Henry VIII. while they were engaged together in a 
i The charge of this gun is 15 pounds of 
and it is faid to. carry a ball feven or eight 
m 
Gun is alfo a name given by the miners to an inftrument 
ufed in cleaving rocks with gunpowder. {t is an i 
lind i 
longs and having a flat fide 
der is determined to t 
Mine. 
crew 
all thin: 
it | a dining-room, &c.. 
GUNAISKOG, in Ceographys a town of Sweden, in 
Warmeland; 34 miles N.W. of Carlftadt. 
GUNDA 
ico. a 48 
GUNDAVEE, a town of Guzerat, on a river which 
ILLA, a town.on the 8. coatt of the iflend 
runs., 
