CONTENTS. The late Mr. Joseph Manton-great changes in the gun-trade:- Barrels, some of the best shot, and then gauged, in order to show PAGE. 17 Mr. Lancaster's self-acting machine for turning the outsides of To put it together again Alphabetical List of names of the principal parts of a Gun Directions for cleaning Guns, and precautions against their hang- XV ALPHABETICAL LIST of London Gunmakers for 1845 177 THE GAME OF NORTH AMERICA; By "FRANK FORESTER,” WOLF HUNTING; By the author of "The Backwoods of America," BEAR HUNTING; By H. J. P., Esq., of Louisiana 'POSSUM HUNTING; By T. B. THORPE, Esq. SQUIRREL SHOOTING; By “FORT PITT," of Pennsylvania "BARKING OFF" SQUIRRELS; By JOHN J. AUDUBON, Esq. CARABOO HUNTING; By "MEADOWS," (B. P. WALLOP, Esq) BEAR HUNTING IN ARKANSAS; By T. B. THORPE, Esq. DEER HUNTING IN MISSISSIPPI; By "HARRY W." PANTHER HUNTING IN LOUISIANA; By “ L.” GUNS AND GUNMAKERS. THE great demand for this work having exhausted the fifth and sixth editions in so short a space of time, I was resolved that the printer's devil and I should have absolution from sporting subjects for at least a few years, and therefore inflicted on my publishers treble doses of copies; or, seriously speaking, I gave very large impressions of the seventh and eighth editions. About four years and a half had elapsed since the former was in the press, when there took place among the gunmakers a complete revolution. Poor Joe Manton-the life and soul of the trade-died, and was buried in the cemetery at Kensington. Several epitaphs to his memory were prepared at the request of his family and sporting friends. The one chosen was that which I wrote, and it shall be here inserted-not as an essay with pretensions to merit, but a memorial of justice to departed talent: "In memory of Mr. JOSEPH MANTON, who died, universally regretted, on the 29th day of June, 1835, aged 69. This humble tablet is placed here by his afflicted family merely to mark where are deposited his mortal remains. But an everlasting monument to his unrivalled genius is already established in every quarter of the globe, by his celebrity as the greatest artist in firearms that ever the world produced, as the founder and the father of the modern gun-trade, and as a most scientific inventor, in other departments, not only for the benefit of his friends and the sporting world, but for the good of his king and country." |