the braya - (as the road reaching for four miles along the quays and harbour frontage is called), are barely fifty (50) feet wide. And these two main thoroughfares are intersected and surrounded by narrow, dark, and unventilated alleys of sordid houses, crowded with a seething Chinese populace, and reeking with the abominations denounced by Mr. Chadwick. Perhaps, the strongest fact of all, is that the first Military founders of what has been called - the Gibraltar of the East, reserved no adequate space for the necessary barracks, magazines, and other Military buildings, which all now agree should have been concentrated within a single fortified enceinte, together with ample space for parade and drill grounds, and other necessary appurtenances. On the contrary, these buildings were scattered over a wide extent on the shore of the harbour and on the slopes of the hills above it; and Chinese houses and hovels, partly of wood, have been allowed to be erected between and