The three voyages of William Barentz to the Arctic regions, (1594, 1595, and 1596) . to Planciusthere existed 8 meridians, under 4 of which there was novariation, and under the 4 others a maximum variatiou tookplace. Calculating upon these data Plancius imagined thatthe true longitude could be found. He therefore adapteda copper plate to the astrolabe employed at that period,and the object found by Carlseu is probably this very copperplate, the only one now extant. 47. The handle of a sword beautifully formed. A similarhandle is represented on drawing 61, letter B in the work ofMr. D vander Ke
The three voyages of William Barentz to the Arctic regions, (1594, 1595, and 1596) . to Planciusthere existed 8 meridians, under 4 of which there was novariation, and under the 4 others a maximum variatiou tookplace. Calculating upon these data Plancius imagined thatthe true longitude could be found. He therefore adapteda copper plate to the astrolabe employed at that period,and the object found by Carlseu is probably this very copperplate, the only one now extant. 47. The handle of a sword beautifully formed. A similarhandle is represented on drawing 61, letter B in the work ofMr. D vander Kellen, Jr., entitled: Antiquities of theNetherlands. 48. A sword with ditto handle. 49. The point of a sword. 50. A part of a spear, with iron spearhead. 51. Ditto head without wood. 52. The point of a halberd. A nearly equiform halberdis represented in the illustration. The exact manner of thehouse wherein we wintered. 53. The barrel of a heavy musket or matchlock, withbreach-pin, pan, matchstick, a sight on the fore part of thebarrel. In the work Le Moyen-age et la Renaissance,,. THE SECOND EDITION. lvii par P. Lacroix, et F. Sere, Paris, 1851, T. iv. in the article Arrnurerie, armes a, feu portatives, folio xxiii, by F. deSaulcy, is the following passage : Larquebuse a. mecheresta pendant longteinps Farme ordinaire dune partie delinfanterie; seulernent apres en avoir diminue le poidson lui donna le nom de inousquet, et le mousquet a mecheetait encore en usage dans les armees de Louis this kind of firearm belongs the barrel spoken ofunder No. 53. The mechanism, with which the match wasbrought on the panpowder was called le serpentin. Leserpentin, says de Saulcy, exigeait que le soldat eut con-stamment sur lui uue meche allumee, ou le moyen defaire du feu : il fallait en outre compasser la meche, remedier a, cet inconvenient on inventa les platinesa rouet, qui furent employees dabord en Allemagne et fab-riquees, dit on, pour la premiere fois en 1517 a Neurem-be
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