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further on the subject.
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/ligned / Arthur Lady
for the Director of Works.
There is no absolute rule to regulate the distance that should intervene
between high road and Powder Magazine and
a war could there be considering the number of circumstances
to affect it.
We would willingly prestige round a
access from it by stragglers to the Magazine and therefore beyond such possible objections if the proposed road cannot without very great inconvenience be further removed, I would not recommend
any valuable social improvement, which no doubt is here contemplated being positively forbidden
I account.
At the same time perhaps palliatives such as where the road passes the magazine that would keep all extraneous proceedings from it as far as possible.
With respect to a roadway, it is easy to contemplate any danger from it, except bringing within reach of the magazine a lighted cigar, pipe, or lucifer match or absolute open ...
Ad this some higher fence wall might be practicable. There is also no doubt a constant guard or watch over the magazine which would prevent any objectionable proceedings being practised on that part of the road.
We have here in Hyde Park a very greatly frequented road running...