Excerpt from Marshall's Practical Marine Gunnery: Containing a View of the Magnitude, Weight, Description, and Use, of Every Article Used in the Sea Gunner's Department, in the Navy of the United StatesTable of the different sorts of Powder and the Marks, How Great Britain tries Powder, How the United States tries l'ou der, Directions for Mea.1ng Pox. Dtr, Utensils wanted, Table 011 the proportion of Pow dcr for Sea Guns, Long, Gunners' Quadrants and Plumb.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.