I have to state that by skirting round the promontory, as correctly shown by the blue line on the office plan enclosed in that letter, I have been able to keep the road along the natural surface of the ground, whereas if I had carried it through the promontory, it would have been if not in a tunnel through granite, in an excavation of no less a depth than 75 feet at its summit.
9. It is quite evident that the original approximate line of boundary road is shown in the sketch plan of 1868 going through the hill spur now known as Magazine Point instead of round it simply because either the existence of the latter or its exact position were not known to the person who sketched the plan.
16. As regards the advantage of the hill-spur for future extensions of barrack accommodation, I have to state that owing to its distance from other military buildings, to its narrow and awkward shape, its steepness and inaccessibility, and from the fact that the ground slopes rapidly away on three sides, I am of opinion that if of any value at all for the purpose mentioned, it must be of very considerable less value than that of the thirty-two acres of vacant and available Marine Department land immediately below it to the east.