entirely ignore the tunnel and descending from the Mountain side - easily gain access to the point marked A in the diagram, which to him were point would be inaccessible to him the road mode in open cutting. I respectfully submit therefore that the well considered Provisos of 1868 are in their present proposed modifications every way safer than
17. As the spar of the hill is a large one the proposed tunnel would have to be carried a great length before emerging into light at the opposite end, and as the road is intended to form eventually a carriage drive, the sectional Area of the heading (which would be mostly driven through granite) would require to be so great as to involve an outlay beyond the means of the Colony.
18. It is an established axiom that Powder Magazines are less liable to danger from attempts at incendiarism in the vicinity of thoroughfares, than in lonely and secluded spots, and I need not therefore descant upon the advantage to the Magazine, of the proposed new road
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20. which will in time convert into a respectable neighbourhood what is now known to be the haunt of bad characters. In deference to the wishes of Colonel Moggridge and if only for the sake of harmony I would not have scrupled to recommend that the road should be taken in some other directions had it been possible, but a glance at the Contours of the hill sides at once shows that its passage elsewhere cannot be accomplished, and that if it be not carried through the line agreed to since 1868 it cannot be carried through at all.
Rifle Ranges on Kowloong where the troops go by successive Companies, for target practice, to Rowr they remain for several Months camped out in the capacious Cantonments there appropriated to the War Department for this purpose. The peculiar target practice of this regiment is therefore carried out at Kowloong and not at Victoria; and this has been the custom for years past. The rifle range at Victoria to which
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