CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 142

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possible

manner;-a-

breadth, with

throughout.

On to

an

looking

given length and uniform defitti of culling

at the Survey, the_ present length of the Queen's Road-

with be seen, and it is

being extended

both to the Eastward and Westward.

The

former

however is the direction

in

which it is more immedia

required,

have been

as several

already

immediately dwelling

houses

built in that

neighbourhood; and also the extensive Warehouses and Bazaons of Messrs Jardine Matheson H:, to which there yet, no approach for Carriages. I would propose that the Queen's Road_ be continued entirely round the Island; and I am saliefied,

is, as

entirely round

from

from personal inspection, that, though in some places there_ will be heavy work, there is nothing to prevent. the plan king carried out; and it appears to me, that such a Road would be highly desirable, not merely

as

a matter of

Convenience to the

Inhabitants, but as a means

of

moving Troops with speed and facility to any part of the Island, where they may happen to be required for the protection of the different Villages.

It is a matter of necessity, from

nature of

the hilly

and uneven nature

ground in this Island, that any plane of a Forow must be of somewhat irregular_

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straggling

the

nature. I would profuse, that along-

the