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480
Searcely make it worth their while to
Embark in the undertaking. This width
in addition to
a
Praya roadway
fifty or sixty feet wide, would place
the breast wall out in such
very deep
water, that I am at once able to state
one million dollars is
the Estimate
of inadequate if the structure is to Extend
ontinuously from the Extreme west
of the lown to the central district, as indi cated by the Governor in his speech, the
newspaper report opwhich is Enclosed in
his despatch.
7. Probably this low Estimate
Million
7
of one
dollars is due to the inex =
pensive type of
sea wall Contemplated.
HEA cheap wall would of course
be
of
Advantage to the promoters but of great dis advantage to the Colonial Government, as it would throw on the latter not only an increased yearly cost of upkeep but
the burthen of prequent heavy disburse. ments in the reconstruction of portions of
the structure After Every heavy typhoon. None
but the most durable class
therefore
of seawall, however Expensive, should
to by the Government in Con
be
agreed
sidering this reclamation scheme. & . With the information before me, I am not able to do more atpresent,
than
suggest
ad a
preliminary step, that
a
A plan
and Estimate of the scheme be
prepared by the Surveyor Ceneral in ac
Cordance with designs to be approved by