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"A Monster GUN Another enormous gun'
exceeding in weight Capt. Stockton's ''peace
maker" by 5000 lbs, is nearly finished at Bos-
ton, and is intended TO be mounted at Fort
George, for the defence of New York harbour
The quantity of metal used was about $4,000
pounds and the amount of coal consumed in re-
ducing it to the requisite state OF fusion was
eight chaldrons. The weight of the gun, when
finished, will be $4,000 pounds. Length, ten
feet diameter at the base ring, 80 lnches'
length of chamber IS inches; length of bore
feet inch; diameter of bore, l2 inches
Weight of round shot which it will carry, 23l
pounds; weight of shell, 1870 pounds Range
of shot or shell, l-2 miles, being IA OF
mile greater than the recorded performance
the largest and latest invented mortar in Eng
land, and half mile beyond the reach oil eve
rv GUN in the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, a
Vera Cruz. The cost of this immense lnstrn
ment for harbor defence will not exceed Sl70C
or one sixth the cost of the wrought gun pre-


cured in England by Capt. Stockton.