CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 144

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property of Mesors Jardine Mathison Hr.

Up the centre of the Valley

Nalley I would have a Canal, with gates to the Sear, sufficiently deep to admit of large Junks (Cargo Boats) coming up.

Along the front Wall, leaving course ample width for Roadway,

of

there would be

an

extensive

of Warehouses; and for

distance

the Na

range

a certain

Nalley-Say

to

пр the present line of the Queen's Road, I would allow only European Houses and Shops. Across the Road to the Southward

hin

Chinese

Foron might be builtin. I further propose to have

Road

af

sufficient width entirely round the Town, at the foot of the surrounding

hills;

hills; and all the Streets to be parallel. to the Sea Wall in the front, passing from a_ broad road on each side of -

side-of-

the Canal into this circular road.

be thought

I

hin

aw are

it

may

advisable, for the sake of air at

particular seasons, to have the Streets

at

right angles to the direction I have described; but I think it probable that it will be found...

advisable to have various small-

very

branches from the Canal_ into different Streets in the Chinete part of the Town, so as to enable the Merchants to have the Cargoes landed from their funks at their Shopt; and this could only be_ done by having the Streets.

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