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PUBLIC RECORD.OFFICE

Reference :-

LTLLC.O.537

31 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE

BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

very

saitabili

and it is a hard

domb up into the road.

The ground on wother side of Grou - the road is very step and it would be quite impossible for Troops to move except along

the road.

The road averages 9 futon Nond width. This made of decomposed granite, and is in very good

order, there

grader.

cr no

Vay stup

nothing

dients and there is

to lessen the ordinary rate ofer Marching in file.

all of t

che

Briky.

to shewn in sketch; they of the same type, strongly built of granite, segmentat arches, width 9 feet, usually a 3ft = parapet, the streams crossed by them have generally vay Wittle water, and sometimes

none.

No part of this road is under fire from any of the

positions

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portions it is proposed to occupy, but the advance of the enemy along it can be considerably checked, and an advance at

at night rendered almost impossible by the following means.

1.

Blow up bridges, Nos: (3) (4) (6) Can be crossed in

daylight if

blown up without much diffically but at night would be serious

to persons unacquainted

obs tatto

with the ground. Nos: (8) & (10)

would be

any

tome

serious obstacted rat

to the ground fallo

Away very stuply from them, and it would be impossible to get guns past exapt by reparing the bridgen.

2. Aut down trees across loadin

thick wood (11) and form abatio and entanglements.

3 . Noll down stones from hill into road and blow of portions of it between (6) ∞(7)