Show L bavy 1 y arttis R ERY ar clent t guns that threw aa projectiles jec tiles in 1478 mohammed 11 II in lb forming the siege of in albania employed fourteen heavy bombards bombar the lightest of which threw a stone shot of pounds weight two sent shot of pounds two of pounds two of pou pounds ads one of 1200 pounds five of isoo 1500 pou pounds ds and one of the enormous weight weigh t of 1010 1640 pounds enormous even in these days for tho the only guns whose shot exceed the hea heaviest iest of these are our 80 ton gun throwing a 1700 pound projectile our ton throwing one of 2000 pounds and the ton throwing an 1800 pound shot with a high velocity the stone shot of meds guns says gays Cham chambers bere journal varied between twenty and thirty two inches in diameter about the same height as a dining table 2534 of them were fired on this oc occasion aaion weighing according to a calculation cu of gen lefroye Lef roys about 1000 tons and were cut out of the solid rode rock on the spot assuming twenty four inches as the average diameter of the shot fired at this siege the total area of the surface dressed was nearly feet at this the waight of the powder fired is estimated by gen lefroy to have been tons at the siege of rhodes in 1480 mohammed caused sixteen basilis ks or double cannou cannon to be cast on the spot throwing baus balls two to three feet in diameter I 1 |