It would be convenient to build residences upon the height, and store houses on the land to be recovered from the sea immediately below. To meet these views as far as possible, the whole of the sea line might be appropriated to the erection of store houses for commercial purposes, except only the frontage required for the Navy and for Commissariat and Military Stores, provided that the houses were of such height as not to shut out the Barracks or mask the adjacent Batteries, and that no buildings were permitted inside the inner road proposed by Mr. Cleverly, and that beyond the necessary servants to Europeans, no Chinese were allowed to reside opposite the Barracks.
For the Military hospital, which should accommodate 250 patients, the most desirable site is immediately to the North of the proposed Barrack, where a spur of the same hill affords room for a large building to face the summer Monsoon. This is the same site that is proposed for a Naval Hospital by the Naval Member of the Commission, but its immediate contiguity with the proposed Barrack renders it specially adapted for a Military Hospital, to which purpose, in point of frontage and in all other respects, it is equally applicable, though I do not conceive that it would be necessary to extend so far along the back.
Along the back of the Barrack and Hospital, it is proposed that there shall be a broad road. This road may be close to the boundary wall and no private house should...
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