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CANNON (continued)
However, the author is far from desiring, that his speculations should be relied on in an affair of this nature, where he pretends not to have tried the very matter he proposes, but founds his opinion on certain general principles and collateral experiments, which he conceives, he may apply to the present case without error. He would himself recommend an experimental examination of this proposal, as the only one to which credit ought to be given. What he intends by the present paper, is to represent it as a matter worthy of consideration, and really such as it appeared to him: if these, to whose censure he submits it, are of the same opinion, there is an obvious method of determining how far his allegations are conclusive; and that is by directing one of these pieces to be cast, a twelve-pounder for instance, and letting it be proved with the same proportion of powder allotted for the proof of the thirty-two pounders: then if this piece be fired a number of times successively on a carriage, and it's recoil and degree of heat be attended to, and if the penetration of it's bullet into a thick butt of oak-beams or plank be likewise examined, a judgment may thence be formed, of what may be expected from the piece in real service; and the refult of these trials will be the most incontestable confutation or confirmation or this proposal."
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 71, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0273.html