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other portion lots, "wet terms, and sung the unto the three classes by which they have hitherto been known, viz., Town, Marine, Suburban, and Bazaar lots; and I would observe that, in my opinion, there is merely a single lot that should be placed in the class of "Suburban". I allude to the Kingalows which Mr. Matheson have built on what is humorously called the "Black Mount". All the others are near the sea, and some actually in the town. Whilst the most remote (not one of them three quarters of a mile distant) a good practice may be made. A few more lots have been built upon than appear in the registry: the particulars of them can be known when the survey is finished.
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Extract from the Report of R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., Colonial Revenue, July 1844
The Surveyor-General, in an official report to the Honourable Sir Henry Pottinger, of 22 pages, dated 8 July 1843, proposed building an entirely new town or city, in the Kowloon declining valley (which may be aptly called the valley of death), with a grand canal, and many branch canals; ranges of terraces of houses, then, Bay, Courts of Justice and various other offices; additional Barracks; additions to the present Government house, for the secretaries and personal staff of the Governor, separated from all other buildings; a space of land to be reclaimed from the sea for a public landing place, with an Esplanade or public