RIFLE GUNS. 
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style that they do now of the removal of the 
seat of the federal government, saying, that it 
must be again changed to Philadelphia; but 
the necessity of having the seat of the le¬ 
gislature as central as possible in each state is 
obvious, and if a change does take place again, 
it is most likely that it will only be to remove 
the seat still farther from Philadelphia. On 
the same principle, the assembly of Virginia 
meets now at Richmond instead of YVilliams- 
burgh, and that of New York state, at Albany 
instead of the city of New York. 
Several different kinds of articles are ma¬ 
nufactured at Lancaster by German mecha¬ 
nics, individually, principally for the people of 
the town and the neighbourhood. Rifled bar¬ 
rel guns however are to be excepted, which, 
although not as handsome as those im¬ 
ported from England, are more esteemed by 
the hunters, and are sent to every part of the 
country. 
The rifled barrel guns, commonly used in 
America, are nearly of the length of a musket, 
and carry leaden balls from the size of thirty 
to sixty in the pound. Some hunters prefer 
those of a small bore, because they require but 
little ammunition ; others prefer such as have 
a wide bore, because the wound which they 
inflict is more certainly attended with death ; 
the wound, however, made by a ball dis- 
