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This tongue is shut out from
the rest of
range of
the Perinula by a
hills about 250 feet
high which stretches right
across it's base. No considerable
Chinese Town, except at an
enormous
outlay, could therefore
ever grow up except
the other
side of
this
at a
range of hills, and
distance not less than
one mile from the proposed Barracks. I consider it also
unlikely that there ever will any large Town in the
be
Peninsula, or that the present population, if left undisturbed, will ever be very greatly increased.
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the ground will not support
many
more mouths than it does at present, and nothing in
my opinion but the appearance the rebels in the neighbourhood, the recurrence of some
of
contingency which would drive the population of
the main
land into British Territory for
protection,
would ever
lead to
the establishment
of a large
town
on Kowloon. In the other hand, the Chinese located
behind the ridge of hills I have
pointed out, appea
to be peaceful
agriculturists. They probably number about five thousand,
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