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1 VII |     Rodman Columbiad threw a shot weighing half a ton a distance of
2 VII |          do here with projectiles weighing at most but half a ton.”~“
3 VII |          which threw a projectile weighing 2,500 pounds. And, now,
4 VIII|      fright at the idea of a shot weighing 20,000 pounds being launched
5 VIII|           108 inches in diameter, weighing 20,000 pounds. Now when
6 VIII| projectile nine feet in diameter, weighing 30,000 pounds, the gun would
7 XXIV|    cylinder, with an object-glass weighing nearly 30,000 pounds, above
8 VIII|      enormous orb, that an object weighing 70,000 pounds on the earth