by the cline of manufactures principally British amounted in value to £400,000 Sterling
10.
As regards
the prospective
resources
of the Colony a valuable piece
of ground in the most frequented part
will be soon at the disposal
of the Government and we doubt not
it will produce a considerable sum
of money.
The purchase of the large store (as advised
in my Despatch No. 16 of 25th January last)
for the new Civil Hospital will
enable the Government to remove the mound
called Pedder's Hill on the top of which the present incommodious Civil Hospital stands, the materials
of the mound will be conveniently near to assist in reclamation from the Sea and the formation of the
Praya and the removal of these materials will leave a large level spot as public property. If any
portion of it, or the building erected on it should be appropriated to public purposes,
the Court House and Public Office might be removed thither without any public inconvenience and there would be a great advantage given in consequence of their adjacency to the Sea frontage.
I cannot doubt that both to the east of the City
11.
and to the west of the
there