content_output-099_2 (Q7000)

reference to the engraving. The butt is of a peculiar shape, and has a box-trap covered with a sliding wooden lid. The guard is of an original pattern, but the trigger, the plainest feature in the gun, consists of simply a straight piece of wire. The stock, which is of walnut, is inlaid with gold, mosaic, filigree, and mother-of-pearl, and is probably as fine a sample of ornamentation as any extant. The barrel is beautifully damascened and inlaid. It is bell-nosed upon the outside. The bore of the rifle, which is hexagonal, is very small, five-sixteenths of an inch. An end view of the muzzle is also given, and shows the enormous thickness at that part. The grooves are straight, but in other respects the bore is similar to the Whitworth.