Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 453
equite as good as anything of thekind abroad, and perhaps evenbetter. I said that these huge guns re-quire steam and electricity to operate them. Let ussee. Some of these enormous steel shells weigh 3300pounds — about equal to the weight of three horses.They are six feet high, and as large around… … GARDNER GUN ON DECK. pounds — is to move about. Yet, to aim the gun,it must be moved about. And as it takes sometime to load it, all the gunners would be pickedoff by sharp-shooters if they were not protected.So the gun has to be moved down behind a safewall or rampart while it is loaded, and then…
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