THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION, 
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The recruit is now supposed to be able to appreciate, with some degree of 
accuracy, the height of the point of rupture above the plane, and also the 
horizontal distance, either in front of, or behind the target, at which the 
shell may burst, when firing at a single target. 
We will now suppose targets of other dimensions, and representing 
different formations of troops are to be fired at. [First, line; our object 
should be now to burst the shell rather high and short of the centre, and we 
should be quite contented if we observed faint marks of bullets on this side 
of the target. 
Figs. 14, 15, represent front and side views of this practice. 
The next formation is column. In this case we endeavour to burst the 
shells about two or three feet above, and from fifteen to thirty yards short, 
according to the breadth of the column. If grand divisions are represented 
then fifty yards short. Figs. 16, 17, represent front and side views of 
targets in column. 
