though the hills
are
Major Caine, now
resident
its
higher.
the oldest
in Hongkong (from very first possession) states
it to be better than
any
part of India, and Sir Henry
Pottinger will
But as
Sir John
the same.
the more state=
i
!
hardly
1
ment of opinions is sufficient, I will endeavour
to show that the great
the
mortality among Military and (at the very first) among
Civilians, must be attributed
to circumstances and causes
sufficiently obvious to save the character of the climate.
Before the place was
definitively
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definitively declared, only two
a
years since, to be permanent possession of the British Crown, the uncertainty
of tenure, and the
very
limited resort of tolerable workmen, led to persons of
all ranks being
housed in
dwellings progressing gradually
from
mere mat sheds to
wooden
and brick hovels
of a somewhat better description.
at first
was at
The pernicious system of ground floor apartments universal, arising partly from hurry, and partly from economy;
I
regret to
more
of
say that
there still
than I could wish.
With...