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Land Defense,
Aldrich's Scheme for that it appears to me to defend
on
Entirely Government may
the views which Her Majesty's
entertain with regard use of this Colony,
to the future
by
whether the plans recommended. Captain Kellett and Aldrich (so far as they compatible with each other) should
be carried out.
the
are
It seems to me, after most unbiased reflection, impossible
Can
be
given
to those
that effect
this face plans without rendering of the Island a mere
Military and Naval Position in lieu of (what it would in all likelihood become under good management)
a vast emporium of commerce and wealth; and, after all, that it never can be strengthened by any
outlay
or trouble so as to render it
tenable for 24 hours against an Enemy having a Naval superiority.
In conclusion, it is perhaps proper
I should explain that the Suggestion I made in my letter No 188 of the 4th May last, that Your Excellency should communicate with Major General Lord Saltoun, had reference
only
to the fact that the Cantonment at "West Point" and the Naval Location at "Navy Bay" adjoined
each other, and that mutual convenience might therefore possibly have been, I thought, consulted
in