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The Military requirements on the Promontory- of Kowloon are.

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Barracks.

Hospital Batteries

Drill ground

Rifle range

Military store Buildings Commissariat, &o.

Quarters for Officers of those Departments and for others

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not in Barracks.

An encampment and

temporary store house required in case of

another Chinese War.

Also sites for a Church to include sittings for the Troops; and a Burial,

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The site proposed by

the Surveyor General facing the South is in

great

Barracks are required at Kowloon for from

1100 to 1200 men, but as part of this number may be lodged in the different batteries, the principal barrack should be for about 1000

men.

The most healthy site available for

I quest mesure stint large a Barrack has been fully reported on by

South East as well as-

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of medical officers recently assembled.

Sip Mind a hill is a Board of Medical

Superior height as

shewn on the sketch.

(lignd) G. F. M.

and who are

of

opinion that the hill ggg near

the S. W. extremity is the only site to be recommended, "I as none other possesses the advantages of

cheerful aspect open to the prevailing Summer wind and a good elevation above the sea level

It is objected by the Surveyor fizneral that this hill being opposite the best anchorage and

deepest water is best adapted to the wants of

the Mercantile community to whom its _