Chris
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I know I know. Sorry Johnny. I knew you'd be asking again any day now. Even using OCR on my scanner, it's hard work converting it to text. Here is a little sampler for you; The first page:
THE USE OF THE SLING, AS A WARLIKE WEAPON, AMONG THE ANCIENTS. COMMUNICATED TO THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES BY WALTER HAWKINS, ESQ., F.S.A., IN A LETTER ADDRESSED TO SIR HENRY ELL1S, K.H., F.R.S., &c., SECRETARY, LONDON: PRINTED BY .1. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. 1847.
OBSERVATIONS HE USE OF THE SLING, &c. 36, Finsbury Circus, 23rd November, 1846.
MY DEAR SIR HENRY, As I believe that the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London does not include a specimen of the Leaden-pellet or Sling-bullet of the Greeks, I do myself the honour to forward you one; of which, together with the accompanying drawing, I beg the Society s acceptance. This specimen was found lodged in the Cyclopian walls of Samé in Cephalonia. The determination of its date must depend on the degree of probability which may be attached to the supposition that it was deposited there by one of the Achaean slingers from Aegium, Patrae, and Dyme, of whom there were one hundred in the army with which the Roman consul, M. Fulvius, reduced that place, after a siege of four months, B.C. 189. (Livy, xxxviii. 29.) It will be observed that in shape it very nearly resembles an almond. It appears to exhibit on one side the characters ?AIN? or ?AINE, commencing at the smaller or taper end, and extending to the larger, where they are slightly defaced in consequence of the forcible compression of the pellet from impact.
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