that any one approaching it can be summarily removed as a trespasser and that as a public thoroughfare it is within a
very long distance of the spot.
13. All this would be altered on
the construction of a public road, people passing along it could not be removed though they stood overlooking the Magazine, the neighbouring land would not be in the custody of those having charge of the magazine, the duties and responsibility of the sentries would be vastly augmented.
14. The above being the facts of
the case, I submit that it would
be highly advisable that the road should not pass so close and high above the Magazine, and I would suggest it might be carried in a tunnel approached by cuttings where it passes near the Magazines - the necessity of
a high wall to the Enclosure would then be obviated, as nothing thrown or rolled could be thrown down from the tunnel on the Magazine, and the cost of such construction would in some measure be met by the diminished cost of the wall. I do not consider, however, that the question of cost should be entertained in opposition to that of the security of the Magazine, which would be so greatly increased by the passage of the road alongside it in a tunnel. I may add that I consider