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able to confine myself

lunits -

within Pranowou

is,

f

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

Forsaries

6

Ya

au

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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