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on Moodie Pount, which should soucet three atou and three 64th rifted quus, to placed as to distribute their fire on the water between Cole point and Mackenzie Head, and to prevent a landing in the boat hasbour between the latter and the lighthouse.
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the Committer suggest this position upon Examination of the Aduically chart, without any special knowledge of the locality, consisting that an advancing this would necessarily pass slowly over the Bar, having to change its course while on it, during which process the would be exposed to the fire of the ballery, which the would find difficulty in returning; and also because an inlet of the sea, full of And and weeds extends inland from the boat harbour, which would be an obstede.
in the way &
way of an advancing force that might have landed to the Southworld with a view to
attempting a coup de maine upon the battery; and also because from the proximity of the Railway and piers, it is presumed men to man the guns would be available
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that