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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
which I am indebted to the same distinguished Orientalist, Mr Redhouse. 
It gives the practical rules for the employment of the gun in the situation 
which it occupied for three or four centuries at the mouth of the Dardanelles. 
Its modern origin is proved by the small charge of powder laid down, for 
the chamber was made to hold about 150 lbs. of the powder of the period; 
but the greater strength of the powder of modern times has made it necessary 
to reduce the quantity to 49J lbs. The inscription in question gives the 
dimensions of the piece as follows:—• v 
