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were

the

being pulled down, in several places under

there

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floors through which I

pools of saturated earth,

was able to drive

a

walking

for

Stick, but common sense saw not the canses

the sickness there, and Common sense is equally wanting now amongst the theorists who object to Napier's Range, and who have placed the Soldier's hurts on a site almost as objectionable as that of West Point in its undrained state

and this to prove their position, the superiority of

another, it has proved nothing but

one site over incapacity and want of Common Sense most

certainly has it turned out a most expensive experiment.

Jam

of opinion that the

bolonel Mann's plan

defects

in-

are

anch

as to renderit

most objectionable, all other interests and the

natural advantages of suitable sites have been sacrificed

to a desire to give a view of the sea,

and that is only given

to

one

half of the Barrack

the

buildings, the position is wrong even,

front range of Barracks will receive hardly any South wind and none of the South East, the back Range like that in Victoria is shut out not only from

the view, but the more important

wind, if the aspect of the Barracks was due

South they would receive all the South, South West and South East winds which blow...

I therefore unhesitatingly recommend the filan sanctioned by Sie Hercules Robinson- the development of which bolonel Moody has, in the paper referred to, so ably excented

many

In conclusion I'm

may observe that

sites are available on

Stoni Cutters'