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The likelihood of the Chinese Government declining to cede by lease or otherwise sites on their territory on which to erect Light houses in this neighbourhood will leave the Colony at a great disadvantage in framing any scheme for lighting its approaches.
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The Coast of Hong Kong has many islands to the Southward of the position that any lights exhibited on it must of necessity show but in small sections of the Compass from any great distance