ferviding
ou it after rain
Qu
stamning
the sites of houses in Victoria-house -
fundalims were
Bides.
beng
cxcavated the
1 of the hills the strata appeared like
pichly prepared compost emitting a fetid odour of the most sickening nature- and which at night must prove poison. This strata quickly
a
a deadly absorbent
any quantity of rain, which it retains
to the surface in the nature
of.
The position
fustiferous mineral yas. of the town of Victoria, which
may
be
likened to the bottom of a
crater with
a lake, prevents the dissipation of this aad, while the geological formation favors the retention of a sufficient
poison.
or rather
watted into
the surface, occasionally - deadly activity.
extent of a marsh
There is no
the island capable
of generating miasma
but the heavy
rains annually washing large
portions
of the mountains through deep
and thus continually
turned into the
Bay
: rotten surface to the sun
exposing a fresh subterranean
source and preserving a focus of disease- which will finally become endemic.
Large quantities of the silt from the hills
are
being deposited - along the shores of the Harbor, which owing
to this circumstance-
and the rapid receding of the tides from this coast, is becoming
The
day. The
only
harbor
very
greater extent of the bay had 4 to 5 fathoms, and in the depot 1 to 2 fathoms
of the steam there is
only
great interval of time the harbor
of Hong Kong
will be too shoal in many
places for large vessels. !