"وجهات نظر وآراء العميد جون جاكوب، قائد وسام الطُهر. مساعد النائب للملكة؛ مساعد النائب لحاكم الهند العام، وغيرهما؛ والقائد الراحل للقوات البريطانية في بلاد فارس؛ والقائد الحالي لخيالة السند غير النظامية، والمشرف السياسي على الحد الشمالي الغربي للسند." [‎٢‎٣‎٧] (٤٨١/٢٦٨)

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from size, &c. should be used for patches. This seemingly
trifling circumstance is of importance, for the use of
improper cloth for patches, or having these imperfectly
greased, often causes the time required for loading to be
multiplied tenfold. The patch should contain as little
substance of cloth, and as much grease, as possible.
For rifled cannon, the iron shot of two and a half diame
ters long will probably, as for small arms, be found to be
the best: the shot might be cast with bands on it to fit the
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grooves, and be used with a well greased leather patch.
This, I feel convinced, would succeed better than any other
contrivance of wooden or leaden bottoms, &:c.
Cast-iron will probably prove to be best for rifled
cannon, they can be so easily made of this material; and
the weight required to resist the recoil properly is amply
sufficient to ensure adequate strength to resist the largest
charges.
[Witton and Daw, 57, Threadneedle Street; Garden,
200, Piccadilly, London; and Swinburn, of Birmingham,
are all in possession of full information regarding the results
of my rifle practice, &c.]
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