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manifestly bent to create a harbour to command the Entrance as well as to prevent the creation of any by the Chinese on Colonion Peninsula. The obvious advantage of Martell, Inverse me the finite nearest must, in a glance at the plan, be apparent. Independent also of external foes it will be essentially necessary to keep the Anglo-Chinese population under control, which such defences, independent of the greater fortifications for the accommodation of the troops, materially aid.
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part of the anchorage of Croloon, it would be immediately protected and covered by the Batteries and Main Garrison on Kowloong.
The Superficial extent (as marked in dotted lines on the plan annexed) amounts to about 405 Square miles independent of the range westerly to the old Anchorage there deemed bad.
In order to adapt my proposed site for the building of the Chinese town I would suggest the cutting off of the tops of the small hills, which are scattered in the valley, and carrying the level, above the highest Garten tide, so as to fill up the space, to be outlined by a stone sea wall, into a flat inner, and thus afford more than one mile of shoreline, which,
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