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"is utterly inconsistent.
"It happens that the site had been the scene of an incident of a similar character on the 8th March 1865 which resulted in the death of 1 Corporal and 2 Privates of the Garrison. It is less the case that so obviously imprudent and dangerous was the way in which the Convicts were recently allowed to obtain earth by scraping it and digging it for weeks from the bottom of the embankment - that Captain Derry of the Royal Engineers actually wrote a letter on the 16th February to the Survey Department, of which