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the..
Staff of His Excellency the Governor,
will remain
as
at
"present",
isolated
; nor will
from all other Buildings; any of those proposed interfere with from it. His Excellency
the view
Place, with an
the Governor has already spotion of
· having a space-
space of land restrained from the Sea in front of this Hill, in order to form a Public landing
replanade or Public Walk. I propose that a
that a... Praya should be carried out in front of all the Buildings, both Eastward and Westward from Government Hill. = Eastwards, I would have it extend at least as far as the rocks at the foot of Lot marked 186 in the Survey (the Manjeethey Hospital Still-); but if my plan for reclaiming the land in the "Wong-hei chung Valley
4
front of
were to
be carried out, then I would have the Praya to go
round the foot of
до
the Hill; and join the Sea Wall enclosing the reclaimed land; and I would also continue it eastwards
the
of the Valley to the "Point", property of Messrs Jardine Matheson &c. Westwards from Government Hill the Praya might be extended as far as Navy Bay, and the land "this reclaimed" would form a number of very
Lots. The
valuable Marine
part of the Lower
which is on the Sea
Bazaar, which is
Beach, will, I am convinced
be