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very
the structure generally is in a I find fair state of preservation so that but
trifling repairs will be needed when the additions are made. The foundations
on rock and the main walls thick.
enough to admit,
to admit of the extra story.
Within
The site is central and while
easy
are
"the most thickly distance of t populated districts of the city is sufficiently removed above them to be beyond insanitary influences. The shape of the ground is not more unfortunate
than
on a
any
other in Victoria a city
mountain slope as steep
roof and broken up
into
abrupt
there is no
eity built
as a
house
into the bargain
midulations, and in which
level ground but that
artificially
reclaimed from the sea. As regards
soil the site is healthy and comparatively dry,
the formation is granite and as the slopes rapidly of all away
to the North and West not
much water is absorbed.
Drawing No1 shows the slope divided into four level or nearly level plateaux of which the
are in existence. The
first, second and fourth height of the first above the second is five -feet, that of the second above the piece of ground which is to be levelled is 9 feet,
while the
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average height of this in its tum is 10 feet above the floor of the District School lately converted into Fever Wards,
In the tropical climate of Houghong
where the winds
are
periodical blowing only
from certain known points of the compass