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A description of batteries being erected at Houghing and Kontoeu, Hunghong.
June 26th 1863.
Name of Battery Proposed Armament Remarks Possession Point 13. 68. Pr North Point 4. 10 inch Guns West Battery This Battery is situated on a spur on the Western confines of the Town, about 170 feet above the harbour. Three guns are mounted here, two in one battery and one in position separately: both batteries are sunken. The Guns command the Harbour from the Western end of Stone Cutters' Island, to the extremity of Kowloon Peninsula with a range of about 2,500 yards. East Battery North Point is a spur about 200 feet in height and distant between 2 and 3 miles from the town Eastward; The Battery on this point is sunken and commands with one gun the passage between North Point and the opposite projection of Kowloon on the road leading from the Eastward to Victoria, and gun bearing Eastward on the harbour. It commands hostile vessels approaching from the Eastward, and with a range of 1500 yards, to the Westward. Kowloon 2. 10 inch5. 8 inch This Battery is about 40 feet above the level of the sea and commands the harbour from the South end of Stone Cutters Island to Nellett's Island. Situated on a spur about 40 feet above high water, and Commands the West and South part of the harbour.
Both these Batteries are sunken.
(signed)
W.R. Clements,
Lt. R.E.
Commanding R. Engineers in China.
(True copy)
(Signed) H. C. B. Moody,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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