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chances then of hitting the foot of the target will be materially diminished; 
the view is indistinct. 
In firing on to ground, either marshy naturally, or soft after rain, the 
projectile sinks and produces little more effect than a shower of mud, Fig. 22. 
In firing on to a rocky site, the shells will be canted up, or off, and the 
result on the target very uncertain; sometimes very destructive, at others 
just the reverse. Fig. 23. 
Suppose the targets placed on the side of a hill; in this case the shell 
