12.
Land" with the "last and West Batteries",
and Sir Henry Pottinger
observes in
some Papers which
have been sent to him
by the Naval Commander-in-Chief
connected with the
selection of Naval Locations, that that piece of ground which His Excellency had proposed to designate
"the "Place" or "Parade
s described as the
is
"Middle Store. -
"It seems to me, after the most
Inclosure 422 in despatch.19 of 1843.-(
- [ Sir Henry Pottinger
unbrassed reflection, to Sir William Parker. )
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impossible that effect
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given to those
plans the ones recommended by Captains Kellett and Collinson and
Major Aldrich)___ without rendering this face of
the
Island a mere Military and Naval Position in lieu of (what it would in
all likelihood become under good management! vast emporium of
a
Commerce and wealth; and, after all, that it never can be strengthened