From John Muller's Treatise of Artillery 1780.
"Trunnions
"The method of placing the trunnions fo that their axis touches the lower furface of the bore, as is practifed all over Europe, is fo abfurd, that it is amazing no author or artift has thought proper to change it; the only reafon I have heard given for this practice, was, that by this means they were fronger fixed to the gun, and of confequnece would not break off fo foon as in any other place. As ifignificant as this reafon is, it ferves however to defend that old eftablfhed cuftom"
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