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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

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