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disposed of, there can
with
be no
difficulty, be put up to sale,
for they may be put up
a clause, binding the purchaser
portion of
to build his
the Sea Wall.
The distance between the points I have
mentioned as the extremities of the
Praya,
is as the Crow
flies
it is
about
Courte
2¼ Miles; round the Coast of course much more, being 4 miles - which
would be a
magnificent promenade,
and would afford ample space for troops, guns, &c., in the event of a defence of the Island being necessary. Hope to have the Survey put into
my
hands in
2
sufficient time to mark by
line the distance, Seaward,
to which I propose
to carry
out
The
the Wall, and to that distance
I know, from personal examination, it can be done; without any
apparatus or means other than we
shall have at our command in a
few weeks.
The
expense,
I believe,
would be covered by $35.
Thirty
Five Dollars exclusive of
the filling
per lineal Yard,
in which
would be done with the earth excavated from the lots at the
opposite side of the Road, for
nearly the whole distance. And also that procured by cutting down
the
two
of
the
the high hills sea side, where the land gained
would well repay the expense of cutting.
It will probably
be