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irregular series of elevation and detached Mountain peal and ridges each commanding another; (B) because different pro of the Island facing the Starbo and also outside the Harbour may be effectually commander by cannon. from the mainla and from the high Islands and adjacent to the harbour which Islands belong to Chine only half of the harbou belongs to England: (6.) becaus the long irregular undulativ. sea face of Hong Kong cann be defended by any

while

isolated

connected line of fortificatio and it is also commanded adjacent Islands not belongs to England.

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Hong Kong is too far distant- from the scene of any future belligerent operations, (should they arise) which must be carried on at the Yang Beklang and Peiho Rivers; (D) Because

any Mar with Ching ought to be allaritime and not Perritorial,

to be waged by Steamers and - Frigates and not by occupying

distant and scattered Towns and lities with our

Soldierys

and (8) Because Whampoa or the Canton River is

position in

ου

better

every aspect for our Mercantile or Military | shipping in the South of Clinc than Hong Kong can ever be whether healthy

or otherwise.

the Hong Flong is politically By its close proximity to the

Houx long is not required Because (et.) It commands injurious

Military

a Naval Station nothing - not even the ent

to the Canton River; (13) 4. prof. Hong Flong is ineffective nothing - not even the Text for the dissemination.

of- and commerce of Canton Christian Civiligation which is totally independe

of Hong Hong, and infinited better succored or sustained

the stationing of a Frigate steamer at Whampoa than any army that could be maintained at Hong Kong, exemplified by the America

who

carry

our

ou

trafic equa to half the trade of Englan with merely the occasional presence of ou

ship of thar is. the Carton River; (6) Becau

main land at the southern extremity of the Climmese Empire

By the dissolute maranding | unsettled character of the Inhabitants; by its distance from the millions of intelligent. peaceful, and semi civilized people in the northern and

central regions of Chind; and by the impossibility of disseminating Christianity from Hong Kong, _ as exemplified by the Americans and other missionaries who after establishing themselves on the Island and building commodious Chapels and divellings have now all in despair quitted song

Hong.