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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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