Three bookes of colloquies concerning the arte of shooting in great and small peeces of artillerie, variable randges, measure, and waight of leaden, yron, and marble stone pellets, minerall saltepeeter, gunpowder of diuers sortes, and the cause why some sortes of gunpower are corned, and some sortes of gunpowder are not corned: written in Italian, and dedicated by Nicholas Tartaglia vnto the Royall Prince of most famous memorie Henrie the eight, late King of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. And now translated into English by Cyprian Lucar Gent. who hath also augmented the volume of the saide colloquies with the contents of euery colloquie, and with all the corollaries and tables, that are in the same volume. Also the said Cyprian Lucar hath annexed vnto the same three books of colloquies a treatise named Lucar Appendix ...

Tartaglia, Niccoláo, d. 1557., Lucar, Cyprian, b. 1544.

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The 44 Chapter. How any great peece of artillery may be drawne ouer a soft marrish ground, bog, or owes.

Page 38WHen you shall haue occasion to drawe any great peece of artillerie ouer a soft mar∣rish ground, bogge, or owes, make for the same peece a strong carriage like vnto a flat bottomed bote that is brode at one end and sharpe at the other ende as this figure heare drawne doth shew.

[illustration] [depiction of a gun carriage]

Let the said carriage be tight, so as no water or durt may come into it, and when you haue so done, lay the peece of artillery vppon the saide carriage that it may not by any meanes role or fal of from it, and vppon one or (if you may) vppon both sides of the soft grounde cause oxen, or horses, or men (where no oxen or horses may goe) to drawe all to∣geather the peece so lying in his carriage ouer the same soft grounde, which will not bee a hard worke to doe, for (as I haue read) a double Cannon will swimme vppon such a car∣riage in a water of one foote in depth, and lying vppon such a carriage can not sinke the same carriage in any marrish, bogge or owes aboue halfe a foote.

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