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mortality shudder at the
very
idia of selecting
-such a place for the residence of Europe
Soldiers in a
of.
ου
The
climate like this.
-valley referred to is a succession
swamps interspersed with knolls of more
less elevated ground it is removed from
- save
the sea - it is shut out from all view
that of the tops of the mountains of Hory
Hong
Kory, it is open at the East to the cold M.E. monsoon which would rush downs it in winter in chilling gusts, while it us admits at the other extremity only, the SW Monsoon which would in the list weather
benefit that end of the Cantonment only-
Embraced within this proposed sitvare
of the buds
whubited by the
Military at Kowloon and which buito
it is notorious have yielded 75 per cuit Fever Cuses than those placed along
the sulubrious Western heights ncluded in Colonel Mann's site -
It is true that the Swamps would
be drained the cultivatives of Rice and other Crops in the neighbourhood
suspended - the
sea excluded,
6 from the low. ground which it now inundates and the gunal level raised by cutting down
the Knolls and
very
ultimately lead to
probably all this might
an improvement in
it's sanitary state, - but this the even a
strong probability is unfortunately by
して
means w
evivove our
ecrtunity in Clinia,
very best medical thcours
have been utterly overturned and set at