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associated with me, viz.- the Consideration of the subject with the view of affording the greatest posible amount of accommodation to Commerce generally due
regard being had
to the Naval and Military interests for
may
Msy reports to which I have referred
be taken as the view I still entertain of the whole question and that tos after reading the
arguments of Dr. Home (which I cannot
agree
with him are unprejudiced) or those of
the other Military Medical men.
The site selected for the Cantonment and as exhibited in Siv Hercules Robinson's despatch
No 40 of 1861 and
finally recommended by the present Commanding Royal Engineer is I
am convinced the position best calculated to
provide for
all the possible
wanto
of
the
26th March 1861,
1
Military Service, my
I need not here
repeat;
reasons
but
for so believing
as
regards
the
attack upon it in a Samitory point of view, I
may observe that as it was undrained ito ~
strongly
occupation in its present state was
deprecated and it was
ocenpies also in opposition
to dir Hercules Robinson's wishes, yet in the
face of this and the first reports of the Military builtgren
Doctors and of Civilians also it was
"to prove ito sanatory properties." - I am not Surprised therefore that it has turned out 75
per
is no
cent of the sick of Nowloon, this however
proof of
its
mon-
adaptability for the purposes of a Cantonment, with the exception
of
the Western portion near the sea it is susceptible
of easy drainage and at small expense, the
Land is as
high
as that proposed by Colonel