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able to confine myself
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within Pranowou
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The result of my examination to facts my own experience in the design of such buildings goes, very unfavorable the proposed Korpital : and in order that some what I have said may not be open to the usual observation that it is
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to criticise than to propose a remedy quite ready to submit new plans indicating the
manner in which I think the Kropital
should be arranged : in fact I have,
at the Board
taugh
excavation, an outline of my Observations, being a
sketch of the proposal and have
the plans of the different floors sufficiently
advanced
to
require only
a little
work
for completion if it should be considered
that the objections I have brought forward
to the proposed Plans are entitled to
any weight.
After writing this I have heard from Mr Authority Kennedy that a sum of $20,000 has been expended
upon cutting out a site ._ I can find in the papers
only
intimation of this having been done and only
in the long
Report of the
the Committee in 1840 that
the Lunacyon General
Considered
that
the site could be drained and built
for
$2,000
$12,000: in the instructions
to the Architect the
Surveyor General
was
silent upon the desirability of draining
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