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Tanjore: Wrought Iron Gun on a Cavalier in the Fort
Linnaeus Tripe British
Not on view
This monumental "monster gun of Tanjore" dates to the mid-seventeenth century and measures more than twentyfour feet in length and ten feet in circumference. It was said to have been fired only once, creating a sound so loud, a missionary wrote, it "was as if mount Meru had exploded."
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