have been created to enable 200 men to be quartered there for in the Summer. Print the
Paddy fields and garden around remain undisturbed and in its present condition I do not think there is a much more unfit situation in the whole Peninsula for a temporary cantonment. Every breeze that reaches it from whatever quarter will be impregnated with the miasma hovering over the swamps and with the liquid manure with which the gardens are saturated morning and evening.
The result of such a trial can be foretold to a certainty. The percentage of sickness will be greater than in other localities on the Peninsula, and the place will, like West Point, be condemned. But such a result after such a trial will in no degree impugn the concurrence of the Surveyor General and the medical men of the Colony, that when the
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