When of large calibre, however, it throws within that limit, Paixhan shot, all manner of shells and combustibles, with great effect, being a very destructive engine at close quarters.

This piece is now very generally found mounted in the batteries of the English and American navies.

The quarter-deck armaments of most modern frigates wholly consist of carronades.

The name is derived from the village of Carron, in Scotland, at whose celebrated founderies this iron Attila was first cast.
---- I did not fancy this station at all; for it is well known on shipboard that, in time of action, the quarter-deck is one of the most dangerous posts of a man-of-war.

The reason is, that the officers of the highest rank are there stationed; and the enemy have an ungentlemanly way of target-shooting at their buttons.