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2. To the Eash it is desirable to mehude the complete
3.
4.
promontories which encircle the approach & Laemorr the deep water bay beyond called Port
as well
по
Shatter where whole fleets
Can anchor from our fromfice
To the North Easts. Only & miles, as the crow flies, though much further bysen_ is the magnificent Told Harton which the Chinese
are believed thane, for some time, contemplating
utilizing
as a haval pork and fortifying - and which
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Any case would afford excellent shetter to a fleck for londing
a
- hostile fore for marching on Hongkong via Chinese howtoon.
It would be well & include this harbor within our limit
the Coutment harrows
To the north, about 10 miles of, the Coutment
tox length of about of miles from
sea to sea. the possession
of which live by a power blockading the Colony by would enable the blockade to be completed
Jea
land as well
5. On the north west about 5 miles distant is the Japsimon Pass-The harrow approach from the (auton River.
Tlll. For all these reasons Erecommend that.
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He
frouher on the mainland should be the live
joining the workernmost inlete of Mirs Bay on the East with the head of Deep Bay on the wech. This live follo
the course of a
river valley, and its possesses
Severally
by no would increase the difficulty to an every of blockading the fortress
2.
the
area
the fortress by land.
of the long should be extended bread
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