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island of Sering ?, near the Kap.
Shine-moon
from
pass about two miles
the Western linait of
Hongkong harbour. In the fore growns a feaddy fiets (rice). Back
of the houses in the middle are the village community trees, some of them seventy feet high. On the hills in the background
and
dotting
the
sky-line are
[ plantations of pinus sinensis, made
by the villagers from ten to __
twenty years ago.
جو
a
few years
I in
to
trust that, in
come,
the island
of stongrong will be able to ~
show it's hills almost as well
covered
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coverés with trees as any of the
neighbouring islands.
8.
All
Your Lordship will
see from W Lord's letter of the 27th of February 1882, that the number of the Pinus Sinensis planter from the mouth of Miss Bay to Lautas and folony, within the last fifteen years, by the
the islands near
the
[hinese, must be about twenty five millions of trees.
I have the honour to be,
My Lood,
Your Lordship's Most Oberent,
Stumble Servant,