Note A — THE DEFENCE OF STONINGTON.
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"Some respectable citizens from motives of curiosity weighed several shells &c., and found their weight to be as follows.
One of the largest carcasses, partly full of the combustible,216lb.
One of the smallest sortdo.103
One of the largest kind empty,189
One of the largest bomb shells,189
One of the smallestdo.90
One, marked on it (fire 16 lb)16
One of the largest carcasses partly full, was set on fire, which burnt half an hour, emitting a horrid stench; in a calm the flame would rise ten feet. Some of the rockets were sharp pointed, others not, made of sheet iron very thick, containing at the lower end some of them a fusee of grenade, calculated to burst, and if they were taken hold of before the explosion, might prove dangerous; one or two persons received injury in this way. They appear to contain a greater variety of combustibles than the fire carcasses.