for my arrival Sie le tamning Sentence
lent sne
to Lee what
was doing, and report, verbally the progress. I could not
Advance
Again
of the mind since
of the marshy side of the hill,
Roadmaking
subjected for the Town- appeared to be the mania. I
the car,
predicted the unhealthiness which ensued, - and it will continue
unless they drain all the slopes, which constantly furnish
subterranean streams - The main Argument I then upheld,
was the
Chinese maxim, that the ground
is better for Paddy, Rice than build that house
for Pigeon.
The
Chinese inhabit the valley
I proposed and were not sickly. It bears the name I believe of Belehen
Valley to this
day-
All the valuable
positions have been purchased
Consequently (I give my opinion) and you
will Learn that Government
will probably have to purchase the
land to build a park. I know the Governor fixed upon it for that purpose before I parted from him in August 1841