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Every month I would ram a whole raft of them into the Columbiad, with a charge under them strong enough to blow them all to the But Hey! what in creation's that?" Whilst the officer was speaking, his companions had suddenly caught a sound in the air which reminded them immediately of the whistling scream of a Lancaster shell.
The discussion over the adoption of the Constitution had long since given way to newspaper and pamphlet writing on political issues. These writings, frequently scurrilous and abusive, were caused by the rise of parties and, in turn, aided in forming parties. None of the wretched stuff survived. Peter Porcupine, the Aurora, and the much loftier Columbiad are alike forgotten.
His most finished poem, "The Progress of Dullness," was hardly less serviceable to the cause of education than his McFingal was to that of liberty. His principal work is the "Columbiad," an epic poem which, with many faults, has occasional bursts of patriotism and true eloquence, which should preserve it from oblivion.
It contains the scientific conclusion regarding this great experiment of the Gun Club. LONG'S PEAK, December 12. To the Officers of the Observatory of Cambridge. The projectile discharged by the Columbiad at Stones Hill has been detected by Messrs. Belfast and J. T. Maston, 12th of December, at 8:47 P.M., the moon having entered her last quarter. This projectile has not arrived at its destination.
"How is it that we cannot see her?" "The fact of our not seeing her," answered Barbican, "gives me very great satisfaction in one respect; it shows that our Projectile was shot so rapidly out of the Columbiad that it had not time to be impressed with the slightest revolving motion for us a most fortunate matter.
It will be remembered that on their third meeting the committee had decided to use cast iron for the Columbiad, and in particular the white description.
Though the Columbiad is at Stony Hill, the Projectile will still be in the Moon." "Much we shall gain by that! A bullet without a gun!" "The gun we can make and the powder too!" replied Barbican confidently. "Metal and sulphur and charcoal and saltpetre are likely enough to be present in sufficient quantities beneath the Moon's surface.
How could he invent anything better than a Columbiad 900 feet long? What armour-plate could ever resist a projectile of 30,000 lbs.? Nicholl was at first crushed by this cannon-ball, then he recovered and resolved to crush the proposition by the weight of his best arguments. He therefore violently attacked the labours of the Gun Club.
One operation alone remained to be accomplished to bring all to a happy termination; an operation delicate and perilous, requiring infinite precautions, and against the success of which Captain Nicholl had laid his third bet. It was, in fact, nothing less than the loading of the Columbiad, and the introduction into it of 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton.
That the operation of casting a cannon of 900 feet is impracticable, and cannot possibly succeed. That is it impossible to load the Columbiad, and that the pyroxyle will take fire spontaneously under the pressure of the projectile. That the Columbiad will burst at the first fire.
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