A detailed and comprehensive guide with tables and observations. Circa 100 pages written in ink in a legible and neat hand. Presumable a Gunnery Officers lecture notes compiled at the height of The American War of Independence 1775-1783 The contents include a 5-page index, some of the subjects covered are Composition of Fire Ships, Composition for Sky Rockets Dimensions and Weights of Round Carcases, Proportion of Shot for Tin cases Sea Service Grape Shot and Proportion Making Gunpowder Upon Throwing Shells, Table of distances with Object of Length and Throwing Shells Preparation of Stores for Landing with Two Battalion Guns Of the Shooting of Cannons Mortars Distances taken in Gibraltar, Problems, Demonstration To the rear (rotated) 7 pages of mathematical formulas