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mortality shudder at the

very

idia of selecting

-such a place for the residence of Europe

Soldiers in a

of.

ου

The

climate like this.

-valley referred to is a succession

swamps interspersed with knolls of more

less elevated ground it is removed from

- save

the sea - it is shut out from all view

that of the tops of the mountains of Hory

Hong

Kory, it is open at the East to the cold M.E. monsoon which would rush downs it in winter in chilling gusts, while it us admits at the other extremity only, the SW Monsoon which would in the list weather

benefit that end of the Cantonment only-

Embraced within this proposed sitvare

of the buds

whubited by the

Military at Kowloon and which buito

it is notorious have yielded 75 per cuit Fever Cuses than those placed along

the sulubrious Western heights ncluded in Colonel Mann's site -

It is true that the Swamps would

be drained the cultivatives of Rice and other Crops in the neighbourhood

suspended - the

sea excluded,

6 from the low. ground which it now inundates and the gunal level raised by cutting down

the Knolls and

very

ultimately lead to

probably all this might

an improvement in

it's sanitary state, - but this the even a

strong probability is unfortunately by

して

means w

evivove our

ecrtunity in Clinia,

very best medical thcours

have been utterly overturned and set at