Loading.
The powder must be in a good flannel cartridge, which must undergo the strictest examination, to see that there are no holes in it, lest in setting it home any grains should fall out. The gun must be elevated, in order that the shot may roll freely along the bore.
Load. Prepare to Load. Load.
ADDISON’S SHOT FURNACE.
This furnace will contain in three rows, alongside of each other, fifteen 32-pounder, or eighteen 24-pounder, or twenty-one 18-pounder shot.
To heat the furnace.
To heat the furnace, it takes of coals ½ a bushel, of coke 2½ bushels, and shavings for lighting it. It should be allowed twenty minutes to light properly.
To heat the shot.
Fifteen 32-pounder shot being then put in, are heated in forty minutes.