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NEW EXPERIMENTS

TRACT 34.

95. Saturday, September 17, 1735.

Ball’s

wt

diam

1

oz

12

oz dr16 12

inches

1*96

inches

22*0

2

14

•

•

23-6

3

16

•

•

24-0

4

10

16 14

1-97

22-3

5

8

.

•

18-1

These 5 balls were fired into the same block of elm rootas on the 10th instant, to get a greater variety of penetra-tions.

96. Tuesday, September 27,. 1785.

N°

Powder

Bull's

Penetr.

Part of the Charge fired at

wt

diam

1

2

3

4

5

6

oz

8

•

oz dr17 0

20- 520-6

21- 620-511-017-3

| Back part

J Middle| Fore part

These 6 also were fired, from the same gun, into thesame block, to try the difference by firing the cartridge

either behind, or before, or in the middle.-There must

be some mistake in the numbers in the last two rounds,which cannot possibly differ so much from the otherbers.

num-