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as a representative one of the system he opposes, and it would be a 
mistake to discuss it here. 
The other was the firing of a 9*45-in. (24 cra ) gun, with a charge of 
165*3 lbs., and a steel projectile weighing 348*3 lbs., at a target con¬ 
sisting of a front 12-in. wrought-iron plate, a wood layer of 2 ins,, and 
a back wrought-iron plate of 8 ins. The plates were rolled at Dillingen. 
The projectile of each of two rounds fired passed completely through 
the entire 20 ins. of iron and grazed about 2000 metres further up the 
