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Show The Government hat joldlti; inntlo guns at Sandy Hook, L with the appliances for worklt. They wero supposed In their Sir tho only effective method ef frtci explosives; but they were lim Joctlonablo on account ol their plexlly and peril. At the Urn wcro Installed they vverenwutti tcct the city of New York in. kesI1iIo Spanish cruiser, nj it. doubt have done so. But un wcro put In place netv high n,V havo been Invented, and the it Hclnls havo been testlnf the c!c tho Inventors that they could from tho ordinary cannon ill usual powder. No public n the tests hnvo been made, tat II. ferred tint they must have hil success or the old plant to' Ino been abandoned. It niiH terror sure enough to have the to lire high explosives, one fair hill! from a thlrleen-lnch tun enough to dlslroy the blneitt-ship blneitt-ship that floats. |