In the background miners are hand or shovel sluicing, in which the riffle-box of the long-tom is dispensed with. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
To the right, in the foreground, three men are working a long-tom, which, in point of time, followed the rocker. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
It takes several persons to manage properly a long-tom. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
In many places the surface soil, or in mining phrase, the top dirt, pays when worked in a long-tom. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
Underneath this colander-like portion of the long-tom is placed another trough, about ten feet long, the sides six inches, perhaps, in height, which, divided through the middle by a slender slat, is called the riffle-box. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
The spadesmen throw in large quantities of the precious dirt, which is washed down to the riddle by a stream of water leading into the long-tom through wooden gutters or sluices. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
He must have seen, for the ensign dipped three times again, and from the long-tom in her waist shot out a puff of smoke. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He then set the whole of the crew to shift the long-tom from the bow to the stern. ❋ Unknown (1867)
“One is said to be a cutter carrying eight guns and a long-tom, the other two are schooners, each carrying six guns on a broadside; it is not known whether they have a long-tom, but the probability is that they have.” ❋ Unknown (1867)
Lying between the two batteries she engaged them both, her broadside guns firing with grape, while the long-tom sent a shot into each alternately. ❋ Unknown (1867)
He engaged her with two broadside guns and the long-tom, and at the same time kept his other two guns playing upon the schooner, the crew of which were busy getting up sail. ❋ Unknown (1867)
The long-tom was served by Dimchurch himself, and every shot went crashing through the side of the pirate cutter, the fire of the two broadside guns being almost equally effective. ❋ Unknown (1867)
Pick, and shovel, and cradle, and long-tom, and prospecting-pan -- all were being plied with the utmost energy and with unwearied perseverance. ❋ Unknown (1859)
As he spoke a shot from the long-tom struck the cutter’s mainmast, which tottered for a moment and then fell over her side towards _L’Agile_, and the sails and hamper entirely prevented the crew from working her guns. ❋ Unknown (1867)
For an hour the cutter kept at work crossing and recrossing her antagonist’s stern, and each time she poured in a volley from two broadside guns and the long-tom. ❋ Unknown (1867)
“That is good,” Will said to Dimchurch; “it shows that she doesn’t carry a long-tom. ❋ Unknown (1867)
Our guns are of heavier metal than hers, and the long-tom will make up for our deficiency in numbers.” ❋ Unknown (1867)
