to allow unauthorized partners or strangers into the Batteries. These orders were for.
As soon as certain, & then several times questioned the Situ sentry myself on this particular point, have been duly carried out.
The guns mounted in the Reverse, central, Best Batteries conspicuously be seen at short distances, further sex; other works are overlooked by the high ground in rear of the Fort: Why a hill on Chinese territory on the other side of the Ly-lium Pass.
One point which to bring to notice connected with this subject: & this is, that in order to conceal the nature of the guns Mounted in the several Fort Batteries, it would be highly necessary that the guns both while being conveyed to the batteries, & after being mounted, should be entirely covered. Beech & Muzzle with tarpaulin covers, as was done previously.
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possible for the Nature of the gun, whether breech-loading? Muzzle-loading, with Mountings, to be discovered from ship tops, elevated ground or other vantage points.
8.1. Ayor M.
10-5-07
C. Mld. Chind F.S.
Memo for HS. The Major General's (and The medical records for Guns past incontestably Show that serious outbreaks of Fevers (lique & Remittent) invariably follow the turning up of the decomposed Granite soil of this Place. As in the past, so in the present, with excavations and upheaval of soil there succeeds a burst of an Endemic of malarious Fever in the neighbourhood. I am consequently of Opinion that I have grounded troops in Ints under construction.