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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 252, 25 October 1893, Page 2

At the siege of Scutari, in Albania, in 1178, Mohammed II is recorded to have em] ployed f urteea heavy ''oombard,," the" lightest of which threw a stone s'iot 370. b* weight, two throwing shots of 6-Glbs, twp of 7501b.., two of 8301b?, one of 1200ib*, five of 150olb?, and one of the enormous weight of lGtOibs. Even in the?e days the only guns whoso shots exceed the lafct named and heaviest of th^seare our 80 -ton guns, throw, ing a 1700-lb projectile, our luO-ton ejecting one of 20001b3, acd the 110-ton throwing an 1800"lb shot with a high velocity. These figures uny be accepted as specimens of the average accuracy of the copying press, but the difference between 18H3 aid 117S lies in thi "velocity."— Lagiish Mechanic. Mrs flenry Ward Beeoher, though over eighty years of age, Eqends hours every day at her writing desk,