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't vessels.

umers both of

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the

would ferobably

e lines would,

d.

ircumstances, onay und that it

may

St. In's lost

's fort

wtice of whappily be necessary.

im there of

ion

is made,

ift and lightly

may occupy the

and

the

Bay of

ediate damage could enry's Ships

omr

ir, if no preparation d to resist them.

iclar character.

of Torpedoes should

the various Harbours

Coast, and

4 persons

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I have

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

The Stone

I have the horror tobe

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Jour obedient Servant (S.) Bd. Selby Smyth Wand-

the Minister of Inilitia & Defences.

P. S.

I have so frequently brought to notice the totally unprotected state of the Harbours of Victoria and the

entrance to

Island,

bez

as well as

cimalt in Vancouver's

of the immea

important Coal Mines I need only

that funs Dockyard

ince

Crora

of

more

immeasurably

Nanaimo that

urge very earnestly lying in requimalt

& obsolete for haval lervice,

in fact kept back from being lent to Ingland partly at my request two years

be at length

ass may

and mounted on

handed

over

's Point

In Aulay's

to command the entrance to both

harbours. A new

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Battery of Arhillag

has

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