and is capable of supplying every deficiency of Struiskong Commercial Harbour in the expectations, which were formed of it in its infancy, being realized. The Port increases, deep sea piers, and Store houses for bulky cargoes upon the water's edge.
Satisfactory nevertheless as the results accompanying are, and rapid as the growth of the Colony has been during the last two or three years, I cannot but think that it is likely to become anything very different from what it is at present, that there is even now any prospect of the vast trade of China which must follow upon the opening of the Yellow Sea, and the Gulf of Pechili and the navigation of the Yang-tze-Kiang, and the facilities requisite for conducting an increased business are forthcoming here, then the Colony will steadily but moderately advance also. If on the other hand changes have the effect of drawing the trade into other channels,
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