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the hollow of it, {freight, then wide: but wet it in Oyl, before you put it in , and socast it in: this Bullet shot off by force of fire , will go in twice as far as otherwise.The reason is easie : for the Oyl takes away the occasion of the Airs breathing forth .for all vents being stopt, the flames striving within , cast forth the Bullet with moreviolence, as we shall shew more at large. So also will the Bullets of Brass Gunspenetrate with more force: and if you lard the Bullets, they will penetrate throughArms of proof. I can also by a cunning Artifice

Shoot a man through with a Bullet, and no place shall he seen where it went in, ot

came forth.

The minde of man is so cunning, that it hath invented a way to shoot a man quitethrough with a Bullet, and yet no mark of the Bullet shall appear, though all the in-ward parts be bruised and beaten through. Consider, that what things are heavy, aresolid, and so subtile, that they will penetrate and leave no marks, where they emredor came out; and they will do the fame, though they be united, as if they were dif-joynted; and every part will act by it self alone, as it wonld do being united. I havesaid thus, to take away all occasions from ignorant and wicked people, to do mischief.I saw

A Gun discharge often , and jet no more powder was put in.

Famous Souldiers use this, not onely for Brass Cannon , but for small hand-Guns.It is thus: wrap a paper three or four times about the rammer that is put into thehollow mouth of the Gun, and drawing out theGun-stick, fill that hollow placewith Powder and Bullet ; here and there let the Bullets be stopt in, and gk wed fast,that no feiffure or vent may appear in the paper. First, let jt be put into the Gun,but locsty, that the Powder put in above, may come to the vent-hole beneath: thenput your mealure of Powder in atop, and stamp in your Bullet, putting Gunpowderto the touch-hole; and putting fire to it, the upper Ball shall be shot off with itsPGwder: presently thrust in a sharp instrument at the vent-hole, and make a holein the Carteridge, and feed it with Powder,and put fire to it again ; and in short timeit will dilcharge twice. I can

Blind jour eyes with the smoke.

This may much profit, when enemies come to storm a City.., But first we must con-sider the wind, that it may be on the backs of our men, and may carry the smokeinto the faces of our enemies. Let there be measures made like lanthorns, so widethat they may go in at the months of the Brats Guns : fill them with Powder cf Eu-pborbium, Pepper, quick Lime, Vine-afhes, and Arlnick sublimate; and putthem into the hollow of ir, after the Gunpowder: for by force of the fire, will thesepaper-frames break ; and the smoke of the Powder,if it come at the eyes of the ene-mies, will so trouble them, that casting away their weapons, they can hardly savetheir eyes.

Chap. XIII.

How it ma j he, that a Candlefhall hum continually.

B Eforcweend this Book, I (hall discover, whether it may be that a Candle oncelighted, should never be put out ; which seems very contrary to the reason ofthe corruptible things of this world, and to be past belief. But let us fee first whe-ther the Am ients ever attempted it, or did it. We read in the Roman Histories, th acthere was at Rome, in the Temple of the goddess Vesta ; and of Minerva, at Athens ;and of Apollo, at Delphi, a perpetual site kindled. But this seems to be false ; for Iremember that 1 have read in many Authors, that this perpetual fire was alwayskept so by the Vestal Nuns, that it should never go out: as we find it in Plutarch, inthe Life of Numa ; and then in the time of the Civil War, and of Mithridatts, it wentout. At Delphi it was watched by widows, who took care, by always pouring »