Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 450
N. 917 for its final boring inside and polishing outside. Athin shaving is bored out from the inside, makingthe bore five and three-quarter inches in diameter.After this last boring the interior of the cannonshines still more brightly, and if you look into it,at the electric light, seventeen feet… … TRIMMING AND POLISHING THE OUTSIDE OF THE GUN. It is a month since the steel cannon was begun.Under the eyes of the workmen in the big shopsit has grown into shape, and now that it is readyto leave its birthplace the men grow devoted tothe shining monster. They linger about the lathe,and are glad…
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