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explosive agent, an explosion would take place certainly destroy-ing the enclosure wall, and probably the end wall of the magazine, but 30 feet distant from the enclosure wall.

11. What the effect of such explosion might be I am unable to predict, but the remotest chance of such a catastrophe should be jealously guarded against.

12. It may be said that the Magazine is open to the same contingency, but the reply is that it is in a remote and unfrequented neighbourhood, and the best that

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