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adjacent to Munay Battery,
If the expertioncy of transfering
land at Lymoon
moon and at North Point
there appears to be no question-
With reapeat to Murray Battery
great
I quite conour in the opinion of its importance for the defence of the harbour
and I do not conceive that the extension
be
Need
of such width as to be detrimental to the Government buildings, if however
there should be a tecided objection to ito
Extension
Øn
that
w, it might be
grown w
removed with advantage to the Home
Government, by the war Department- -purchasing these buildings which would) form useful offices
and Stoves or Barracks.
Possession Point is the best spot
available for the defence of the entrance
of the inner harbour; it is also important for internal defence in the event of any insurrectionary movement: the extreme -point of the spur cannot now be obtained,
but if it is ever to be occupied by defensible barrack,
As
wall
As a
a
battery
the whole of the spour extending from the point where it is cut off up to the rook
shmen be secured.
At Possession Point the ground
immediately in front lies so-low- that there is little danger of the by the excation
gures
being masked by
of houses in front of them, but that