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 Mitchell, it has now acquired a considerable degree of celebrity, the following minute description of its construction and properties, illustrated by the accompanying cut, may not be uninteresting. The extract appeared some years since in the United Service Journal and is quoted in "Bennett's Travels in New South Wales":—

For the latter purpose, however, it should be thrown from the hand at a considerable elevation (45 degrees), with a sudden jerk, so as to combine with the projectile force a rapid rotation round its centre of gravity. The rotation acts constantly in opposition to its line of flight, so that if a similar rotation could