CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3] — Page 494

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erection

of

bwvilian

Gentleman's Nilla's

an's Villas from three

to five hundred

Compme

yonds off in any

manner

with Colonel Mann's two parallel

lines distant 100 yards one fifteen feet above

the other.

The proximity of the former

that a

site to the sea will not avail for sea batting

and the soldiers must actually go to rapier's Range a distance of 1,000 yards for purpose.. At each end of the Napier's Range Cantonment they have

a lea

frontage of

500 yards, shallow water on one side and

deep

on

the other, the soldiers have no necessity

Į

backwards and

for going

going backer.

I know of no single objection to it under proper

and this I say after

management

an

experience of twenty years of this climate and

during the whole

of

which time I have had

the arrangement of much more troublesome areas than that of Napier's Range, but to leave it in its present state and occupy it the results

will be such as those occurring at West Point

in Heongkings-

The

first

Barracks were

erected there and it is unquestionably the finest

site in the whole of Victoria, but the troops, unhealthy and the place was condemned by Military Board, and the present objectionable

were

ал

forwards through

site chosen instead. I

may

remark that West

ase

level, areas

for

the Town, the area is large..

The parade grounds

gardens are available the

planting and gardens.

rifle range is immediately adjoining, in fact

Point was undrained, the surface water passed

over, or

through a grave yard, and then under-

the floors of the Soldier's hurt: when the Barracks