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For those who wonder what happens when one fires a round ball into water here is a translation of the 1705 work by Monsieur Carre in the 1822 British Indian Repository on page 86 and Plate II at the end.

https://books.google.fr/books/about/The_British_Indian_Military_Repository.html?id=-d0KAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
 

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