Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . over twenty miles. Its projectile willweigh 2,370 pounds, and a single discharge will cost $865. If firedat its maximum elevation from the battery at the south end of NewYork, in a northerly direction, its projectile would pass over the cityof New York, over Grants tomb, Spuyten Duyvil, Riverdale, MountSt. Vincent, Ludlow, Yonkers, and would land near Hastings-on-the-Hudson, nearly twenty miles away. The extreme height of itstrajectory would be 30,516 feet, ox nearly six i/iilcs. This meansth
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . over twenty miles. Its projectile willweigh 2,370 pounds, and a single discharge will cost $865. If firedat its maximum elevation from the battery at the south end of NewYork, in a northerly direction, its projectile would pass over the cityof New York, over Grants tomb, Spuyten Duyvil, Riverdale, MountSt. Vincent, Ludlow, Yonkers, and would land near Hastings-on-the-Hudson, nearly twenty miles away. The extreme height of itstrajectory would be 30,516 feet, ox nearly six i/iilcs. This meansthat if the gun was located at the foot of Mt. Everest, the highest ofthe Himalayas, the missile, as shown in the accompanying diagram,would fiy entirely over the mountain; and its trajectory, as shownby the curved line, would lead it so far above the top of the moun-tain that though the great pyramid of Gizeh were placed on the topof the mountain, and the Washington monument reared on top of HLIOHT OF PARABOLA SffM/lSS WEioHT OFPRoiiaae z^70 LBS. POWDEf CHARGE S76 LBS. COST OF one OliCHARiC -20,97d MIL£S- of a Frojecliie from 1 G-inch Gun 290 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS that, the hissing, roaring shell would clear them all, and still haveroom to spare. Such an exhibition of the power of mans devicesover huge masses of matter is calculated to make our War Depart-ment feel that they are in possession of an engine that nothing canresist. The weapon, when completed, will be sent to the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and tested by throwing a shottwenty-one miles out into Lake Erie. If the tests are satisfactory,the government will order forty of the guns. Then the UnitedStates will hold by all odds the most terrible engines of war pos-sessed by any nation on earth. Of the whole number of guns,eighteen will be placed in New York Harbor, ten at San Francisco,eight in Boston, and four at Hampton Roads. So says a dispatchfrom Washington. This is really but another object-l
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