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As the best way perhaps of conveying my ideas to Your Lordships any of the points discussed in Major Aldrick's Memoranda, and eventually laying them before Her Majesty's Government, I will here, as concisely as possible, state the outline of the general plan which I had sketched in my mind for this side of the Island long before I heard that Major Aldrich had been ordered to China, and which plan I had intended, in due time, to submit for the consideration and Commands of the proper Authorities.
I have already in my letters to Your Lordship of the 2nd and 4th of May, No 185 and 186, proposed to allot for Cantonments the Ground which I considered to be the best suited for that purpose, and I had moreover invited the Naval Commander in Chief to select as much ground as His Excellency might require in the vicinity of Navy Bay for all Naval Buildings and purposes. I had also intimated to Your Lordship, that I thought it might be found advisable hereafter to have a Battery built to guard the Lymoon or Eastern Passage into this Harbor, and had recommended that the site of the permanent Barrack for 100 Men