foot of ground which under any pretext can possibly be reclaimed. It is a peculiar view of their duty in which I have found all Ordnance
Officers to participate.
26.
Even in reference to the proposed new Road, which in any case must have greatly benefited the Ordnance property, I beg of you to read Colonel Lovell's letter of the 25th July 1865, to the Director of Works at the War Office, objecting to the road because it would pass near a magazine, and stating that he had therefore been unable to hold out any hope of the sanction thereto of the Secretary of State for War.
27.
It is gratifying to find that such a narrow view met with no countenance from his superiors and that in the communication from the War Office of the 5th October Colonel Lovell was reminded that a very great "frequented road in Hyde Park runs near to a magazine without the slightest apprehension of danger." I do hope therefore that the War Department, in case Her Majesty's Government does not intend to build permanent quarters here, a small Army in an unhealthy site will instruct the Officer Commanding the Royal Engineers accordingly, and will leave the local Government