Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 372
antity of the powder used, in the density of theair, direction of the wind, etc. This variationis bad enough when firing a shell ten miles, butwhen the shell has to travel seventy miles, it isout of the question to try to hit a target unlessit is miles in extent. The reason we never built our… … (r) I iiderwood & UiiUern ociU FIRING A FRKNCH 3 20-MII.LIMETER GUN AT NIGHT ship that is so far below the horizon that wecannot even see the tips of its masts; and so ourbig guns, even though they are capable of firinga shell twenty-seven miles, if aimed high enough,are u.sually mounted in…
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