Norway with artillery in three months; and at two months notice
he could fupply a 50 gun ihip, with all her artillery, ammunition,
and military ñores. In ihewing us his works, he laid claim
to many new inventions. He faws and poliihes cannon, by means
of a mill fo contrived as to anfwer various purpofes ; he faws off
the wafte pieces of copper from the caft cannon, which operation
was the work of fixteen men for three days, and is now performed
in an hour. By means of the fame mill, and a kind of turning
machine, he poliihes the cannon in the manner of turning,
which ufed to be done by the tedious operation of filing. He
has invented a fimple machine to twift the hot iron bars together
for anchors; a mode which he prefers as ftronger and better
than the ufual method of hammering the bars together. In his
powder-mills he ufes copper mortars, which are much fafer than
thofe of wood, as the latter, on being much ufed become dry,
and harbour the powder in the fmall crevices. He employs two
ranges of mortars in each row, or fixty-four in each powder-
mill, wherein ufually only twenty are ufed, and he beats only
ten pounds of powder with each mortar. The expence of
copper mortars is very confiderable, as each mortar cofts twenty
pounds ; but then the mills are certainly lefs liable to accident;
and if blown up, the mortars are again recovered.
On taking leave, the general preffed us much to ftay and
dine with him'; but we excufed ourfelves, as we were under
the neceffity of reaching Elfinoor, and were engaged to dine the
next day with Mr. De Gonig.
In
In our way to Elfinoor, we flopped at a fmall village,
and expedted to find no provifion for our dinner. But we were
afloniihed- at Teeing the table covered with fome cold provifion,
and four bottles of tokay, which the general had fecretly
ordered his houfekeeper to deliver to our fervants.
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