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Show When Cannon Were a Novelty. There Is nn nmusltiK description by Mnnro, nn old Scottish noldlor, of tho effect of cannon, when they wero new weapons of warfare. "For a long time," ho says, "used for the batter-Ins batter-Ins down of walls n"nd cities, they wero nt Inst used In tho field to hrenk Fqnndrons nud lmtnlles of horso nnd foot. And how hoono the truniphct did Found the enemy wns thundered on so thnt they were cruelly nffrlRht-cd. nffrlRht-cd. men of vnlor bclim suddenly taken tak-en away, who before were wont to fight vnllnntly nnd long with sword nnd lnunce. Hut now men urc martyrised mar-tyrised and cut down nt more than half a mllo of dlstnnco by those furious nnd thundering engines of great cannon." |