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Eligibility at all to be compared with it. my only regret is that this ridge which runs North and South is not sufficiently
axtensive to admit of the whole banaclesbeing
placed in
a
single range
is not the case,
to obtain the
as
this however
necessary
accommodation another and somewhat
v
parallel ridge of high land is selected wor
between
100, and 200, yards Eastward of the
forner position and
air
this Colouch vn
Mann places his second range of
Barrach buildings by the adoption of this
plan
us
a
whole the valuable advantage
is scoured of having both ranges of Barracks
or v
high ground of their being well in
advance of the low Marshy ground lying inland and to the Morth
of
over
beeping them as for forward as possiblond. the tongue of land which forms the Peninsula, and therefore well exposed to the -sea air and as little to that blowing the land as is practicablo- and above all of placing them on the locality that mous pust experience of Kowloon
toon has proved
inour.
the least obnoxious to local and malarious.
influence,
I repeat that as a
whole no other site
that the Peninsula affords is in my opimon
better fitted
to secure the beaultli
the health of the
Troops at Kowloon than this, which,
recommended at first by a Medicale=" Committee consisting of
- consisting of De tuin, Came
ultimately fiant the Barracks
and Rutherford
cre
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