The practical sea-gunner's companion: : or, an introduction to the art of gunnery; containing, decimal arithmetic, practical geometry, trigonometry, with its appliation to the measuring of heights and distances: the duty of a gunner, &c. The true allowance of powder for proof, service, salutes, and scaling of all ordnance now in use.  The nature, length and weight of iron ordnance: of the specific gravity of lead, brass, iron, &c. with its use in finding the weights of different kinds of metals.  Also the true diameters of te bores and ball, wehreby the wind allowance is exactly known: the weights and diameters of iron spheres, megnitude and weight of the several shells (now in use) when empty or filled' length of the fuzes adn time of burning, &c. of carcasses ancient and modern; a catalogue of gunners adn armourers stores, with the quantity of arms allowed for a ship of each class, new establishement; and several other particulars, as will appear by the table of contents. Being the substance of the Captains Povey and Binning, with large additions and improvements. /
Mountaine, William,-1779.
London : : printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-row on Tower-hill,,
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MSS inscription on front free endpaper: Charles. G.F. Cunninghame Graham.  60 Warwick Square. S.W. December 1911.
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