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line - attempts which had been largely balked by the opposi-
tion of junk owners and other interested parties.
This ind
Dr. hun, after alluding to the advantages of a line to "hm-
pon an Homan Islani, to bring forward an old favourite pro-
jant of his for filling in the front roach of the riva“ be-
swean the city of Tanton and Fonam, along which reclamation
the loepling night run. This whilst benefiting both the
Hty and the Honen Juburb, he remarked, would obvisse the
building of bridges se sonment the two and leave the whole
of the brak resah wvailable for shipping purposes.
disposed to agron with his, I pointed out how grant would be
the expenditure on such an undertaking, as comparat with the
relatively small cost of a line turning through, or to the
Forth of, the 71sy. I added that it would take yours to
eremite, wharema for purposes of conwaying material for the
completion of the trunk ling to "askrow the loop lina was an
inseliste necessity i that moreover it was an hydralio
problem which would rewire onreful thinking out.
I then proceeded to diemuss the question of the attitude
of the foreign - and more particularly the British
- pross
towards him, which, I was given to understand, he sonsiderod
unfriendly. Pisolaining any personal knowledge of the mo-
sivon, by which the press was actuated, I amid that I could
only suppose that, like myself, thasa sonnerned felt that
many of the schemes which he publicly advoontoi were in-
practicable and inopportune. What thora was also no doubt
that
of a de I
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