
Verne
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Verne · 53 chapters
The Armstrong, Palliser, and Beaulieu guns were compelled to bow before their transatlantic rivals.
The estimation in which these gentlemen were held, according to one of the most scientific exponents of the Gun Club, was “proportional to the masses of their guns, and in the direct ratio of the square of the distances attained by their projectiles.”
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