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The two elevated horns which are seen standing up at the rear part of the slide above the roller frame are designed to receive the thump of the two short buffer-blocks seen at the rear part of each carriage cheek in the event of the recoil not being wholly expended in raising the weight of gun and carriage, etc., along the curved racers of the slide.
These buffer-blocks bear against plugs of vulcanized india-rubber secured in the bottoms of the buffer cylinders. We have thus, though very briefly, described the whole of this mounting.
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