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chap. used'. Notwithstanding the neglect it has expe- 
^ n ~ , rienced, it remains in good order, without having 
sustained any damage. It was cast in 1694. 
Hard by, are placed some artillery of less caliber, 
but of very extraordinary length 2 . 
There was nothing at this time prohibited 
under more severe penalty than the making ot 
any drawing or sketch within the Kremlin. 
Owing to this circumstance, we are prevented 
(,) According to the Voyage de Deux FranfaU, tom. W.p. 296. its 
weight is 2400 foods ; and its dimensions, sixteen French feet in length, 
and four feet three inches in diameter, deducting sixteen inches for 
the thickness of the piece. 
(2) A curious notice of the brass cannon in the Kremhn occurs in 
Eden’s History of Travayles, as augmented by miles, and printed by 
Jueee , in the black letter, at London, in 1577- It is gathered out of 
Paulus Jovius, and proves that they had the use of artillery in Moscow 
so early as the reign of Ilasil Ivanovich. “ Basilius dyd furthermore 
instytute a bande of hargabusiers on horsehacke, and caused many 
great brasen peeees to be made by the workemanshyp of certayne 
Italians : and the same with theyr stockes and wheeles to be placed 
in the Castle of Mosca.” Eden's Hist. p. 301 . 
