CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9] — Page 256

with Australia, the Indian archipelago and the continental states adjacent

will ere long, I hope, enable us to create a Museum interesting and valuable.

Roads, 46.

28. I propose to apply the accumulated balance and out of the increased resources of the Colony to employ a sum not less than £7,950 on Roads and Public works connected with communication, with the exception of a short distance from the most thickly peopled part of the Island, the roads and pathways are in an uniserable state. The Southern part of the Island is for many months of the year far healthier than the Mother on which Victoria is built, the latter being sheltered from Southern breezes by the high mountains behind. The Thermometer at Stanley, which is open to the Sea, often ranges several degrees lower than at Victoria, and I doubt not when a carriage road makes Stanley accessible that it will become the Sanatorium of the Island. At present a very large portion of land - the most useful and valuable for building purposes is held by the Ordnance and was originally intended to be used for Barracks, but for the best five years has been...

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only if absolutely necessary, without markdown or code fences), and correcting minor issues:

with Australia, the Indian archipelago and the continental states adjacent

will ere long, I hope, enable us to create a Museum interesting and valuable.

Roads, 46.

28. I propose to apply the accumulated balance and out of the increased resources of the Colony to employ a sum not less than £7,950 on Roads and Public works connected with communication, with the exception of a short distance from the most thickly peopled part of the Island, the roads and pathways are in an uniserable state. The Southern part of the Island is for many months of the year far healthier than the Mother on which Victoria is built, the latter being sheltered from Southern breezes by the high mountains behind. The Thermometer at Stanley, which is open to the Sea, often ranges several degrees lower than at Victoria, and I doubt not when a carriage road makes Stanley accessible that it will become the Sanatorium of the Island. At present a very large portion of land - the most useful and valuable for building purposes is held by the Ordnance and was originally intended to be used for Barracks, but for the best five years has been...

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