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and estimates. He has explained to me that in stating his opinion that the latter will be found to be sufficient, he has made allowance for the additions and alterations he has suggested. c. Sir John Coode also proposes modification in the line the sea wall which will
of
couriderably increase the reclaimed area, without materially increasing the
cost and he also calls. attention to the fact that the new Sea front will rist be
in the sense usually attaching to that word,
a
Quay
inarmuch
1
inasmuch as beerals, other
than lighters, will be unable
to he alouguide. IL-
to us, however, from
appears the 1o
&
paragraph of the Surveyor! General's report of the is th
F
the
Suly 1857, that the une Praya as a quay is not contemplated, but merely that the landing and imbarkation
of cargo by lighters will not in future be impided by the
shallowness
of
the water.
Thr Chater, the member of the Legislative Council of Froug Trong who has taken a leading
fart in this scheme, called
here
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