CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6] — Page 31

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clsewhere, while if this ground.

be given to the bribuanx department,

the nece

cecilary ace

acerumstation fr thre resorting hither would only be found in adding to the already unhealthily crowded localities

now inhabited..

7.

I assume that of the two

Abjects, the town and its defence, the former plainly has precedence, and I am strongly of spinion that the proper position for batteries is still further west than that indicated by the late Commanding Royal bengineer

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5. He is saying I do not

consider myself differing in

pinion from

imagine

that

offices

who I

has merely dealt with the Town in its present form

without contemplating it's

extension along the sea-shore to the westward.

9. I will undertake to Jay that the proposed Batteries can be built efficiently and conveniently

without

any interference with my plan, and in fact Captain Coroper the present Commanding Royal Engineer is ready to add his testimony to the sounduces of my

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