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by wilful or accidental fire being placed to so combustible a building. I need not add how anxious I must necessarily be to have the Magazine completed
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The Main Road has been carried to the highest level and will now descent towards the town of Pok-chum; and I have had a short branch road made from it to a village of the name of Soo-kun-Soo in the neighbourhood of which are some very good and desirable spots for building.
Owing to the contumely(?) all here of the he has my lately seen placed at the Engineer my Service,
The Battery on Kelliks Island has been retarded, but a plan has at length been furnished by Lieut. Wuchering, and a contract has been made for its construction. This work has been commenced and every exertion on my part shall be made to complete it by an early period
A wooden Barrack for one hundred men is ready for being conveyed up and it will be completed for that purpose. The Major on the other side of the Island there is a day or two to insure salubrity in order to insure Gen. at has been induced to commit to repair to the vicinity of Chok Chun, both to choose the best and to report on two or three different sites available for this purpose
Having inform Your Excellency that many persons are making application for land to build upon It is not easy to lay out this Island for any particular part I own lots, from its very great irregularity, neither does it from experience appear to