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unders.
derstanding should be speedily arrind at by the Supreme
Authorities whether Hongking
is to be defended
by
in case
of attack a by land
men of war or,
of
hesh
fortifications for fuch questions appear likely to be raised every day by the Engineer Offioirs at present here as to the suction
of
new batteries or the alteration
of existing
ones and many of
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these changes unfortunately lirectly incompatible with the
constuction of the Bouring Praya the arrangements for
progressing most
which are
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Satisfactorily
and as a)
a public
work Sconsider it of the very highest interest for the comfort Salubrity and even safety of
the Colony.
To show the difficulties
under which the folonial Government must labour from the different views taken by successive Enginces Officers Swould remark that er Calone Supard's meaning appears to be that a line of Era frontage
a
execeding a third must be
Order
I a third of a mile The kept
t untouched in
to enable one
battery to
flank another battery but in