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He pushes a lever forward partly much as an engineer does on board of one of our locomotives, and immediately a low continued rumbling begins. We are unconscious of motion -- cannot realize it till, as directed, we sight along one of the splendid hundred "founders through the port hole and there we "see it." The whole horizon is swept entirely around and every object passes swiftly before us. The officer explained the manner of working the guns. So so as one was discharged the Turret was made to revolve away from the enemy and so the gunners were unexposed in loading.

I never saw more splendid guns than these hundred pounders. While in the Turret I spoke with the seaman on duty there and he gave me a piece of the timber of the Monitor for a Souvenir. Also one