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Of Gaston Phoebus. Fourteenth century. the famous T o l e d o s w o r d blades, and those from P y r m o n t in G e r m a n y , w e r e celebrated for their excellence o f strength and temper. In confirmation o f this w e read in Sir J. H a r i n g t o n ' s translation o f A r i o s t o (Italian p o e t , H 7 4 - I 5 3 3 ) : B u t as a strong a n d justly tempered b o w O f P y r m o n t steel, t h e m o r e y o u d o it b e n d , U p o n recoil doth give the bigger blow, A n d doth with greater force the quarrel send.

I find that these sporting c r o s s b o w s send their bolts at furthest 350 yards, their a v e r a g e length o f flight b e i n g from 330 to 340 yards. range, s o called, of good a T h e point-blank sporting c r o s s b o w , with a steel b o w , was from 5 0 to 60 yards, which was n o d o u b t sufficient in the d a y s b e f o r e animals had been m a d e wary b y the report o f h a n d - g u n s , and w h e n the hunter with his noiseless c r o s s b o w , could lie in wait for d e e r as they w a n d e r e d across the glades o f a forest, or visited their feeding and drinking haunts.

T h e c o m p o s i t e b o w was straight, h e n c e its b o w - s t r i n g was fixed to it in a necessarily rather slack condition ; for this reason the threads c o m p o s i n g its string, being m o r e or less detached, were liable to a b s o r b moisture. On string the of a other hand, the threads steel c r o s s b o w , lay closely that composed the tightly strained p a c k e d together, and as in this case the string was always thickly smeared, both inside and outside, with beeswax to preserve it, it was impervious to water.

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