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The Stone
I have the honor tobe
fie.
Jour obedient Servant
Jour
(S.) Bd. Selby Smyth Wand-
the Minister of Militia & Defence.
P. S.
I have so
frequently brought to
notice the totally unprotected state
the Starbours of Victoria and the
entrance to
Island,
to requimalt in Pancouver
as well as
f
ant Coal Mines
important I need only
that Suns
Dockyard
once
Crora
бр
the immeasurably
吓
Nanaimo that
more urge very earnestly
lying
in
Esquimalt
& obsolete for haval lervice,
in fact kept back from being sent to
England partly at my request
be at
ago may
length
and mounted on
west tivo year.
handed over
In: Aulay's Point
harbours. A new
Battery of Arhillingh
has
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(9)
to command the entrance to both