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Show HEAVY AflTILLEnY. Anelsat Oon 't lilt Throw EViorai ms Pro-Juotltet. Pro-Juotltet. tn 1478 Mobuniiuod II., Iu tormlng tho siege of Scutari In Albania, employed em-ployed fourtcm heavy bombarlbi, tho lightest of w hlcli throw a stono Uiot ol S70 pjunda weight, two sent Uitiof K90 pounds, two of 7"v0 pounds, two of 850 pounds, one of 1,000 pounds, Cvobf 1,800 pouLiln, nud one of tho rn tiooui wrlght of 1,010 psund5, cnormoi i oven in theso days, for the only guns whose hot exceed tho heaviest of th to nro our 80-ton gun, throwing a 1,70 tpound projecillej our ICO-ton, throwilg one of 'J.0OJ pounds, and tho 110-ton, hrov-Ing hrov-Ing nn 1, 803-pound shot with Ii high velocity. The stono shot of Mohatnmed'l guns, says Chambers' Journal, varied 1 ween twenty und thirty Ti IneTTVs liTdinm-etcr, liTdinm-etcr, ubout ti.o came -l t . as a ijllnlng table; 2, Dy I of thorn wero fired cli this occasion, woljhlng, according to lj calculation cal-culation of Gen. r.cfroy'B, about 1,000 tons, uud wero cut out of the solijl rook on tho spot, Auumlng twenty-four inches as tlio avcrago diameter if the shot 11 rod nt this siege, tho total i rea of tho surfaco dreeaod was nearly 33,000 square feet. At this slcza the v eight ot tho powder fired Is estimated b; Qen. Lefroy to have been 250 tons At tho Blego of Rhodes, iu 1450, Mohammed Moham-med caused alxteen basilisks or d mble cannon to be cast on the spot, t irow-lng irow-lng balls two to tbroo feet In liam-, liam-, oter. |