40
: the leading Government Offices bought land, built houses, or bazaars which
they rented out at high rates, and the
Jubilee money
was lavished in
most extravagant fashion
the
building
up, and putting down temporary statues; making zig zag roads over
the hills, and promenades and
forming the "Queen's Road" of about
23/4 miles long. $150,000 have been expended
on which about.
but which
The
is not passable for half the year.
A straggling
settlement called Victoria.
Queen's Road was built along the seaside and was dignified with
it was declared on
Authority,
contain extensive
of City, and the highest ... that Hong Kong would
population equal to
that of Ancient Rome".
The
Surveyor General in an Official
Report to Sir Henry Pottinger of 27
pages dated 5th July 1842 proposed building
a new town, or City in the Wernicketing Valley (which may be aptly
called "the valley of death") with a grand Canal and may be
Two
branch terminals ... series
ranges of Terraces of Houses
... Courts of Law, and various other offices; acclimatising Barracks; additions to the present Government House for the Secretaries, and Personal Staff of the Governor, isolated from all other
buildings;
a space of land to be
reclaimed from the sea
for a public landing place with an esplanade public walk, a magnificent Promenade of four miles to be made in ground
now covered
by
a tea wall, at a cost
of $35 dollars per lineal yard, exclusive of filling in ...; a viaduct road over Kennedy's Valley, and parade ground for the entire island ...
adopted 26
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exitively
5th July 1842
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