CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 134

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improvements.

As the best wo

way perhaps of

my

ideas

conveying to Your Lordships any

the points discussed in Major

on

Aldrick's Memoranda, and eventu

and eventually

laying them before Her Majestig's Government, I will here, as

As

concisely

possible, state the outline

www

mind

of

for

the general plan which I had sketched in my this side of the Island long before I heard that Major Aldrich had been ordered to Chins, and which plan

I had_ intended, in due

time, to submit for the consideration and Commands of the proper-

Authorities.

I

my

the have already in mehetters

4.

letters to Your Lordship of the 2nd and 4th of May, No 185 and 186, proposed... to allot for Cantonments the Ground which I considered to be the best

suited for that purpose,

that purpose, and I had

more over invited the Naval

Commander in Chief to scheat as much ground

His Exceloway might

require in the vicinity of Navy Bay- for all Naval - Buildings and purposes. I had also intimated

Your Lordship, that I thought it smight be found advisable here after to have a Battery built to quard the Lymoon

to

02.

Eastern

"Passage into this Harbor, and hade- recommended that the site of the permanent - Barrack. for 100

Men