POPOFFKAS, OR CIRCULAR IRONCLADS. 
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these are sufficient. Certainly they are the most important, 
and we believe that they are the crucial tests of the efficiency 
or non-efficiency of the system. The whole subject is being 
experimentally investigated by Mr. Froude on the part of the 
Admiralty; and when his report is published we expect that the 
public will be in possession of a judgment upon the Kussian 
circular ironclads very different from Mr. Feed’s. 
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