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possible
manner; -a-
breadth, with
throughout.
On to
an
looking
given length and uniform depth of cutting
at the Survey, the present length of the Queen's Road
will be seen, and it is
being extended
both to the Eastward and Westward.
The
former
however is the direction
in
which it is more immediate
required,
as several
have been
already
immediately dwelling
houses
built in that
neighbourhood; and also the extensive Warehouses and Bazaars of Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co., to which there is yet no approach for Carriages. I would propose that the Queen's Road be continued entirely round the Island; and I am satisfied,
from personal inspection, that, though in some places there will be heavy work, there is nothing to prevent the plan being carried out; and it appears to me, that such a Road would be highly desirable, not merely
as
a matter of
Convenience to the
Inhabitants, but as a means
of
moving Troops with speed and facility to any part of the Island, where they may happen to be required for the protection of the different Villages.
It is a matter of necessity, from
the
hilly and uneven nature
of the ground in this Island, that any plan of a Road must be of somewhat irregular
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straggling
the
nature. I would propose, that along
the