CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6] — Page 204

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If very

It is a question now conciderable importance in which. direction to extend the City, there is

little

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• really available ground

such houses

for the creation of suc

the Eity, no

A

the Chinese require in the rear of as the grouuch is so steer, and thus the extersion of the City Westward is what I most

strenuously adoreate, as it

gives us

: more extended sin frontage which

a

is of

such rast importance and in

its real

large vacant aven

is a large

of 100 acres, and though rough

and rocky is of a suitable inclination streets and in us way inferion

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to the

space upon

which the

present

City is erected; unfortunately however

the proposed crection of a Battery at

the West end of the

City interferes

with this scheine, which Immuch

respet

as I feel convinced an equally

suitable site for a

Battery is Stainable,

rig:_ at the ill Battery at the Ntural Stores; it was the points originally

determined

upon for the defence

of

the Western entrance to the harbour

it

and if such a work is really requires I conferr I should prefer seeing it

created there, as from its poitim it

would Command not only the entrance refined:

to but have

an extensive range

of the Barbour to the Eastward;