7.
478
erection
of
bwvilian
Gentleman's Nilla's
an's Villas from three
to five hundred
Compme
yonds off in any
manner
with Colonel Mann's two parallel
lines distant 100 yards one fifteen feet above
the other.
The proximity of the former
that a
site to the sea will not avail for sea batting
and the soldiers must actually go to rapier's Range a distance of 1,000 yards for purpose.. At each end of the Napier's Range Cantonment they have
a lea
frontage of
500 yards, shallow water on one side and
deep
on
the other, the soldiers have no necessity
Į
backwards and
for going
going backer.
I know of no single objection to it under proper
and this I say after
management
an
experience of twenty years of this climate and
during the whole
of
which time I have had
the arrangement of much more troublesome areas than that of Napier's Range, but to leave it in its present state and occupy it the results
will be such as those occurring at West Point
in Heongkings-
The
first
Barracks were
erected there and it is unquestionably the finest
site in the whole of Victoria, but the troops, unhealthy and the place was condemned by Military Board, and the present objectionable
were
ал
forwards through
site chosen instead. I
may
remark that West
ase
level, areas
for
the Town, the area is large..
The parade grounds
gardens are available the
planting and gardens.
rifle range is immediately adjoining, in fact
Point was undrained, the surface water passed
over, or
through a grave yard, and then under-
the floors of the Soldier's hurt: when the Barracks