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ill defined.
6. As the road was tied in at both extremities, at the one by the granite boundary post approved by Colonel De Butts in 1869, and at the other by the passage of the magazine, and as it was the steepness of the hill on both sides that between these two points the general direction of the road could not diverge to any very serious extent from the route approved by Sir John Pakington; it will be readily understood how it was that the final divisory line could be so easily and confidently left to be determined as Explained.
It was moreover perceived that any deviations would be compensatory in others, the final location would give places if it took away in others.
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7. Under the circumstances it would, in my opinion, be hardly fair so late in the day to call upon the Government to ignore the facts which I have submitted, and to agree to belie the approximate location of 1868 in the new light of a hard and fast line, to which, in spite of the impossibility acknowledged by both sides of building a road along it, the Colony should have adhered.
8. With reference to that portion of the road alluded to in Sir L. Simmons' letter to the Colonial Office of the 6th instant.