NEW MODE OF FIRING. 
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would be found in comparative approximation, and be fur- 
nished with compressive action from the remaining portions 
of skin. And should it happen that one firing, well per- 
formed, did not prove availing, a second firing might be 
practised by scoring the interstices left through the interrup- 
tions of the first. 
To pratise this mode of firing, the iron made use of by M. 
Prange is cuneiform , has a straight convex blade, and is less 
than half the size of the common firing iron. In using it, we 
must fire from left to right. And the strokes, or other marks, 
M. Prange commonly makes, on an average from 1 to 1 \ inch 
in length, and half an inch apart, lengthwise : the interspaces 
being regulated by the breed of the horse and the nature of 
the enlargement, &c. The subjoined woodcut represents a 
fired fetlock and hock : — 
