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- Barracks, this is also in Cantonment

Land the

ground

site but do not recommend it in.

any way,

here is steep and

be enged

rocky it will require the diversions

of

arre

of the water __ courses the erection of a heavy retaining Wall on the

approachs

line of the Mullah and an Road and Bridge; these works would occupy nearly a year before a single

Store

the mint could be laid.

The main

of nain front of the building. - must of necessity face the Mullah and the whole position is so inclosed by high land and the Barracks, that I fear it would be as

unhealthy building.

الله

the

rear

range of that

I can therefore only advert to this

07-

it's adoption can

only

the actual impossibility of

oblarining another.

At the Eastern limit of the

Cantonment there is an area

of being reclaimed from

capable

the

sea in

a

in front

of the Euston Grand House, but this

together with the Guard

House

itself

the stoppage of the branch Road from Praya to Queens Road and - the abandonment of the Colonial Tarket would but give a space of 2 70

feet

-square, this is marked C.

There is a

plot of ground not-

We 65° a portion of which has been lately reclaimed from

the

sen, this

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