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for Mortars. | KINDS. | Weight. | Tonnage. | Len. | Br. | Ht. | | cwt. | qr. | lb. | ts. | cwt. | qr. | ft. | in. | ft. | in. | ft. | in. | | Sea | 38 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 2 | | | | | 13 | - | | Land Wood | 21 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | | | Do. Iron | 50 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 3 | | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | | | Sea | 32 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | | | | 10 | - | | Land Wood | 10 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | | 1 | 8 | 1 | 10 | | | Do. Iron | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ¹⁄₂ | | 8 | - | | Land Wood | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 | ¹⁄₂ | | Do. Iron | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | | | 5 | ¹⁄₂ | Wood | 1 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | | | 4 | ²⁄₅ | Wood | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ¹⁄₂ | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | | Stool - Beds for guns. | Inch. | In. | | 42 | Prs. | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 10 | 11 | | to | 8 | ³⁄₄ | 3 | ³⁄₄ | | 32 | —— | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 10 | 10 | | 5 | ¹⁄₂ | 3 | ¹⁄₄ | | 24 | —— | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 9 | 10 | ¹⁄₄ | 6 | ¹⁄₂ | 4 | | | 18 | —— | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 8 | 9 | ¹⁄₂ | 6 | ¹⁄₂ | 3 | ³⁄₄ | | 12 | —— | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ²⁄₃ | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 6 | ¹⁄₂ | 4 | | | 9 | —— | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | | 2 | 7 | 9 | ¹⁄₂ | 5 | ³⁄₄ | 3 | ¹⁄₂ | | 6 | —— | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ³⁄₄ | 2 | 6 | 9 | | 4 | ³⁄₄ | 3 | ¹⁄₂ | | 4 | —— | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 2 | 6 | 8 | ¹⁄₄ | 5 | ¹⁄₄ | | Sea-Mortar - Beds , are made of solid timber, having a hole in the centre to receive the pintle or strong iron bolt, about which the bed turns. Sea-mortars are mounted on these beds, on board of the bomb-ketches. These beds are placed upon very strong timber frames, fixed into the bomb-ketch, in which the pintle is fixed, so as the bed may turn about it, to fire any way. The fore part of these beds is an arc of a circle described from the same centre as the pintle-hole. Stool - Bed , is a piece of wood on which the breech of a gun rests upon a truck-carriage, with another piece fixed to it at the hind end, that rests upon the body of the hind axle-tree; and the fore part is supported by an iron bolt. See Carriage .