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54. Nose Bag, in use in Prussia.* A method for a nose bag, is now 
in use in Prussia, called “Neuer Futtersaek nach dem system Moque.” The 
figure sufficiently explains the mode of attaching the 
cords to the surcingle and nose bag. 
When the horse’s head is up, the cords are loose, but 
they become taut, on the head being lowered to get at 
the feed. 
The horse is therefore enabled to eat without placing 
the nose bag on the ground or other rest. 
55. Penetration of Earthen Parapet by Heavy Rifled Guns,! at 
7 0 yards range :— 
A 10" Palliser shell, head 1*5 D, weighing 398 lbs., fired from a 10"M.L. 
rifled gun of 18 tons, with a charge of 54 lbs., penetrated 23 feet of earthen 
parapet, and passing out in an upward direction, fell 300 yards beyond. 
A 9" Palliser shot, head 1 1), weighing 248 lbs., fired from a 9 " M.L. rifled 
gun of 12 tons with a charge of 37 lbs., nearly passed through 23 feet of earth 3 
the point of the shot showing through on the inner side of the parapet. 
56. Specimens of Foreign Woods. An interesting addition has been made 
to the museum of the R.A. Institution by the presentation of specimens of foreign 
woods from British Kaffraria by Lieut.-Colonel Chermside, R.A., from the Bombay 
Presidency by Capt. Hobart, R.A., and from New Zealand by Captain Betty, R.A. 
The descriptions received from Lieut.-Colonel Chermside and from Capt. Hobart 
are here printed, and Lieut.-Colonel Chermside “ is convinced from long experience 
that many of the Cape woods would give great satisfaction for the construction 
of Military Carriages to be used in warm climates.” 
X In the forests of the Cape of Good Hope are found several varieties of trees, 
the woods of which are of considerable value for numerous purposes, useful as 
well as ornamental. Among the former may be reckoned timber possessing 
qualities particularly adapting it for the construction of wheeled carriages. 
The large wagons used by the Dutch farmers, are made entirely of Colonial 
woods, and the services which these wagons have to perform require that the 
several parts should be of the best possible materials. The very dry atmosphere 
of the Cape, the hot sun, and, still more, the extremely rough roads, try to the 
utmost all conveyances used in the Colony; and it is not too much to say that 
woods which can stand such tests as they there undergo, would endure in all 
similar extreme climates. 
* Communicated by Lieut.-Colonel E. Curtis, E.A. 
f O.S. Committee Extracts. Part 1, Vol. VI. p. 86. 
X Memo, upon the woods of British Kaffraria, to accompany thirty-eight specimens presented 
to the E.A. Institution by Lieut.-Colonel Chermside, E.A. 
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