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the

consequent cxposure

that the latter does not act as a screen to the wind. It allows of the concentration of the Banails and Hospital on one spot thereby obviating the necessity of numerous guards and sentries, to the sun in going backwards and forwarts in hot weather, and the notoriously bad :effects, in this climate, of night duty, and this conrocentration, by having a railed unclosure, would conduce to the discipline and control of the Troops and consequently to their health. The site has a most-

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chrisfuel aspect, overlooking the barbour- and slipping, afforded by no other practicable locality.

The site or rather sites recommended for Burrucks by St Cd. Uroody the present

Commanding Royal Enguicer have the disadvantages of being comparatively low and have hitherto proved not nearly healthy as that recommended by Sicut. Colonel Mann. They necessitute the

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buildings being detached right. -neck of the penisula to a distance of i

-nearly a mile from

one end of the cantounent to the other, are shut out

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of the harbour and well

shut out when the adjacent

ground becouses occupied and built upon

the Civil Community.

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The site recommended by Licit. Col. Moody for a Hospital is a portion of that recommended by Sient Col. Mann for both Hospital and Barracks and is