which you.
which I beg to answer, and from Lordship will perceive that the requisite Machinery for the tread-mill cannot be procured in this Colony, and that the whole had better be sent for from England. Should
proposal, therefore, meet with Lordship's approval, I hope that instructions
this
may
be issued to some
your
competent person
to procure and send out to Hongkong-
a
tread-mill as described in the Surveyor
General's letter.
I am unable to form any
idea of the cost of the Machinery in question; but full information will be
MIL
this
readily obtained at home: and with respect to the freight, it will, I believe, amount merely to a trifle in excess of the outlay incurred for the purchase of the tread-
mill- at all events it will be both cheaper and better in every respect that the wheel should be sent from England-
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complete with the few exceptions mentioned
in Mr
Fleury's letter.
I have the honour to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Flury