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on which they
Employed is
are to be
a road from
Hakodate to Sapporo, the centre
from its being peopled.
so scantily
I have, etc.
(signed) R.G. Watson
of colonization
in Jezo. The
road
will extend for about
It is
understood that
two hundred miles.
the object of this movement
is to guard against the possibility of Russian encroachment
on
Jezo
as
on
Saghalien, to
which latter island Russians
obtained
access
the
more
readily from