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walk, a magnificent promenade of four miles to be made on low ground, encroached by the Sea, which was to be excluded by a fox wall, at a cost of 25 dollars per lineal yard, inclusive of filling in, &c., and circular grad hills and ranges, round the entire island, &c., adapted for cantonments, and for moving troops with speed and facility to any part of the island where they may happen to be required for the protection of the different villages. These villages, be it remembered, containing nothing but a few hundreds of a thieving piratical population.) Refer to the Government Archives for full details of these and other most "ridiculous projects, involving a vast expenditure of public money, which none but the wildest theorists or self-interested persons could have projected or entertained.
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On 17th December 1843, the Surveyor-General laid before Sir Pottinger the elevation of a building for a Government Office, &c., with a frontage of 60 feet in length, by 50 feet in depth, and which would probably cost £24,000 Sterling. There seemed to be the greatest desire to spend a large portion of the Chinese indemnity, on this wretched, barren, unhealthy, and useless rock, which the whole wealth, energy, and talent of England would never render habitable, creditable as a Colony.
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but the wildest theorists or self-
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