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shipping and consequently slippery

venient for horse hoffice would not

be equally safer.

Drawing ko 26 is

map showing

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the land locked position of the port and the points of the - pass from which the Trage ball is most exposed. In respect of

peshicted action of typhoons

the

very

the harbour, it must

borne.

LH

mind that

this pt. the

bver

the

be

back of Kowloon 3000 feet high and that

the City itself is built at the foot

and

will under

the be

of

the

pre.

cipitous slope of Victoria Peak

which is

o our

and that

1750 feet high.

it is sheltered pom thes

East by the high range extending

along the shore from Victoria Prok. in the directions of the Liguemoon Park

that the harbour is not suly land. locked but inclosed by high land. From the Southern half of the

40

pass

there is

Car

completes practically

immunity from wind or

A

it is only when the wind gets to this northern half that the sea rises at all. When the wind blows from the harth or

to the Praga direilly

wall the opposites penccisula of how loon as well as Stone Culler's Island and the high mountains which rise from the water's edges along farning Sha Wan Bay not me a

and precludes the formation of highs

so that it is

wa vis

ves,

only when this typhoon has verreds to the norths

Rash

along

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