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Tetrast of
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letter Fest
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RECEIVED
Sir Edward Belcher
DICT-5
1843
this Imurany?", addressed
Within 15
Mapely
Captain
Beaufort, Hydrographic to the Admiralty dated at ten April 18th
1043.
The selection of the site for
the Town was not approved.
of
by the General and of thurning Entrance. I was absent
at Macao. In
my
arrival at
Hong Kong I found affairs in a
bad state. The Batteries at Cowloon having been built of long granite slabs about 5 feet by
10 inches in the Square were taken by private persons at the same moment that government was
purchasing hewn Granite.
In new Colonies, matter hands should be sent from England to introduce the most approved
methods, and to secure
the
most profitable outlay of Public Money
I think it is important
to communicate perhaps directly to the head of the Ordnance, such parties.
ZZ DZ
persund wakes: a then and it, with
his much, to die S. Pittigen.
I should hope that under his instinctive
direction the island, baker
the messeng
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