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12.

Land" with the "last and West Batteries",

and Sir Henry Pottinger

observes in

some Papers which

have been sent to him

by the Naval Commander-in-Chief

connected with the

selection of Naval Locations, that that piece of ground which His Excellency had proposed to designate

"the "Place" or "Parade

s described as the

is

"Middle Store. -

"It seems to me, after the most

Inclosure 422 in despatch.19 of 1843.-(

- [ Sir Henry Pottinger

unbrassed reflection, to Sir William Parker. )

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impossible that effect

be

сай ве

given to those

plans the ones recommended by Captains Kellett and Collinson and

Major Aldrich)___ without rendering this face of

the

Island a mere Military and Naval Position in lieu of (what it would in

all likelihood become under good management! vast emporium of

a

Commerce and wealth; and, after all, that it never can be strengthened