Military Commission to Europe in 1855 And 1856. Report of Major Alfred Mordecai, of the Ordnance Department
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G., large grain. 2 32 3 45 621 621 3 32 3 45 617 617 4 48 3 45 420 420 , 5 48 5 45 735 735 6 48 6 20 600 600 7 48 7 20 687 687 8 32 3 2 92 490 9 32 3 3 104 490 10 48 3h 4 5 2 80 Shot partially stopped by striking an iron railing, about five hundred yards. 11 48 48 2 1 83 83 'Z''ZZZ'. ■ 12 J The shot fell point foremost. On a previous day a shot, weighing thirty-two pounds, with a charge of five ounces, at an elevation of 20°, ranged 876 yards, and penetrated three feet in a strong clay soil. Th...e system of rifled cannon recently adopted in the French marine appears to have been suggested hy the construction of the cylindro-ogival bullet used by the Kussians for the two- grooved rifle. This rifle-cannon is made on the model of the 80-pounder bomb cannon (cast-iron) as to exterior dimensions, but is bored to the caliber of a 30-pounder, (Plate 5, Fig. 1,) corre- sponding to our 32-pounder; diameter of bore, 6.44 inches; length from base ring to muzzle, eight feet; weight, 8,600 pounds.
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