DIRECTIONS FOR TAKING APART AND ASSEMBLING GUNS, RIFLES AND PISTOLS 346 Rifles 346 The Ballard Rifle 346 The Burgess System 346 Burnside’s Rifle 347 The Evans Rifle 348 Hotchkiss Repeater 349 Howard’s “Thunderbolt” 350 The Kennedy Magazine Rifle 350 Martin Repeating Rifle 351 The Maynard Rifle 351 Peabody Martini Rifle 353 The Phœnix 354 The Remington System 355 Remington Magazine Gun (Keene’s Patent) 357 Remington No. 3 (Hepburn’s Patent) 358 Sharp’s Rifle 358 United States Muzzle-Loading Rifle and Musket 360 Springfield Breech-Loading Rifle 361 Whitney Breech-Loading Gun 362 Whitney New System Breech-Loading Gun 364 Winchester Magazine Gun 365 Billings’ Breech-Loading Shot Gun 366 Fox Breech Loading Shot Gun 367 Lefever Hammerless Gun 368 Parker Double-Barreled Breech-Loading Shot Gun 369 Remington Double-Barreled Breech-Loading Shot Gun 369 Roper Four-Shooting Shot Gun and Rifle 370 THE GUNSMITH’S MANUAL. CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE GUN. _Discovery of Gunpowder._—No authentic records have been left to show when or by whom was discovered the wonderful properties of the chemical compound now known as gunpowder; nor have we any information concerning the uses to which it was originally applied. There is little probability that it was at once employed as an agent in fire-arms; indeed, we have pretty strong evidence to show that it was not, for Roger Bacon refers to it in his famous treatise, _De Nullitate Magiæ_, published A. D., 1216, while fire-arms are mentioned by no writer as having been known earlier than about 1338.