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First,any 1 ronind your Excelioney that if no more to look only

at Hor Kafusty's betters Patent areating this Jolony of Hong Kong. fated the 5th April 1848 our boundaries ought to be considerably

gore spacious than they aru, The boundaries of the Gelony of

Fong Kong and its dependencies are stated to be between ??° 9′ and

92° 21′ North latitude and^314′′

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fast Longitudo.

Ponover that

rios,if laid down on the sap, would have taken la bauna Island on the

South, and the opposite range of mountains on the North, and would

have left bath sides of the Lya❤noon in our hands.

that

may have boon and whatever degree of importante in new te ne uitaube

ad to the wording of the Gutters Patent,it is clear that only the

island of Hong Kong and the smaller leiets is close proximity to its sharon sate originakly taken puumaaston of until 1880,8tone Butter's

Inland und the onttro poniznuia of Head Kong were Chinquo territory.

It did nos nutter quch then when the Jolony was of little importance

and the inhabitantu comparatively for and when the troops were arued

with the old toner uusket and cannon shot was barely a ello, Even

when, in 1840,⧠was thought advisable,first to lease,and then to

acquiro Kovisong,rified cannon were in their infancy,kron elada nere

unknown and a boundary line at the foot of the opponita bilis was

thought to be ample for the protection of the City and the barbour,

As late as 1878 when the fixat fortifications were ezsated for the

jafanno of the inland the lunghon and North Point batteries vore

supposed to be sufficiently neki plased to keep an aneuio's fleet

si a safe distance from the city and from the shipping,

than,over droaned of seeing a powerful fient of Jhinene ironoladu

anchored in Novicong bay,

No one,

What is the position nov † Our forts are on Stone Jutter'a

island and to the by-a-moon, and the Chinono boundary kino puno

through the middle of the hyseruosa pasa, there only a quarter of

#ile wide, and to within a mile of the Hongban batteries, and it

FALSOS ‚en the other side of Toukseng, batuses Rtone Sutter's and the

mainland,

The raters on the northern aldo of that ling are neutral

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