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a distance of 1500 meters with a charge of only 700 
granines of powder. The government then ordered further experiments 
to be made, which were conducted at La F ére, a fortified place in the 
he Aisne, where greater secrecy could be secured than 
he trials were there made by Col. Trenille and by Col. 
ation— In our last letter we spoke of a number of Arabian 
the Society of Acclimatation had procured in Algeria, to 
to Brazil. We learn that they were safely landed there 
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