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and the Naval Yard. The Major General
is absent
at a
this refers,
left
General
to throw to what exact spot
the North Bank's
Buildings situated between these two localities
grant
The
I
Missing. The sea wall
observe that
In paragraph 11 of this Excellency only remembers an accidental mention by Lt. Col. Lovell, Royal Engineers, in which the Governor
ever mentioned
that possibly at same extension of the throw would lead to filling up all the shallow portion of the harbor, "making a straight line of beach from North Point to the Praya, whereupon the
"Colonel observed that he was already contemplating
such improvement on
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"a minor scale. I now quote paragraph 4
"His Excellency never had not the
"slightest conception that any
plan of the
Wind then alluded to, and involving
"extension of the Military lands into the
"Harbor, or in fact any alteration of the
in any way
had
proposed cantonments but not only maintained but actually
forwarded for the sanction of the War
Department without his
or knowledge.
In reply I am to request you will call the attention of His Excellency
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to the following facts - On the 26th April
1863, Colonel Moody, then Commanding Royal Engineers in China, addressed a letter to the Inspector General Royal Engineers in England entering fully
very