■ r. The Experiments here propofed, are to be made in Guns 
of all Si%cs^ Bores ^ Weights, Metals^ See. 
2.Three or more Shot to be made with every different Charge^ 
and at every feveral tryalj that the certainty may the better ap- 
pear. 
g. The firft Shot being Meafured and marked, the reft may 
all be Meafured from it, or from one another, to fave labour. 
4. The Gun is to be pointed, placed, and ordered every time i\ 1 
in one and the lame place and pofition, aiming ftill at the lame t\ 
Mark, or pointing ftill in the very fame Line or Azimuth 3 that i\ 
fo all the Shot may fall in the fame Line, as near as is pofiible. 
5. The Powder muft be exa&ly weigh*d,every time the Peecc 
is charged , left it having been weigh'd long before, the weight 
may be^lter'd, though Experiment may be made with Car- 
tridges and without. 
6. The Powder^and Bullet is to be rammed home equally 2X 
evcrji Shot 5 though the loofer the Powder lye, it fire the better. 
7. When the right Charge of a Peece is found, that makes the 
fiirtheft Shotin the ordinary and plain way of Charging^ Mon- 
GcuY de So^s contriY^incc of a WeJge may be tryed, to make ii 
Shoot farther 5 which is a piece of Board, fo long, as being thruft ' 
home to the Breech of the Peece at one end, the other may reach i 
farther out than the outfide of the Bullet , being ramm'd up to ^ 
its place 3 broad about an Inchj and thinfofarasthe Waddbe- j 
fore the Bullet reaches on the out-fide 3 there it is to have a ! 
Shoulder, from which forward to the end, it is to be cut a floap | 
like a Wedge, being of fuch thiGknels,as that at the place, where t 
the Center of the Bullet is to be, it may make it ftick lofaft, j 
that the Powder finding morerefiftance may at length drive it i 
out with the greater violence* ' 
8. Another of this nature is a Wooden Tampon^ like a piece - \ 
of a Cylinder , big enough to fill the hollow Cylinder of the [i 
Gun, the length fomewhat more than the Diameter of it and ii 
hollo w'd towards the Bullet^ fo as to fit it 5 and e/Mer flat, or i 
(which is better^ hollovv? likewife towards the Powder, and fer- I 
ving inftead of a Wadd. Thefe and fuch others will probably ren- i i 
dcr the effect of the Powder greater, than otherwifeit would be. . I' 
9. The Strength of the Towder muft be examined by a Fowder- i 
Tryer^ that raifcth a Weight, fuch aw one as has been contrived ' | 
by Mr. hlook^^ and is made by Mr. Shortgrave^ Operator to the 
Royd^aciety. j G. 1 be. | 
