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except for a fer detached villas wich ample space between, there is no site m under the manitain fit for

the

gorge

Enossian troops, because in all Siongthing

Emopean

there is no

place where they would be so completely shut out from all chance of ventilation and breeze during the S. W.

monsoon.

24.

for

I do not however dwell on

this,

whether the grand be healthy or the

reverse

Mo

I believe the War Department has property in it, and suring that at Stanley, Kowloon, and in the town of Victoria itself that Department already professes for

is listely

more extensive sites than it

to

orcapy with Militacy

Buildings unless it is intended to quarter

а

and

small

>

army permanently at Merolo Nongthing. I do hope that the Colony may find in the Marjisty! Government a disposition to entertain more reasonable visus of the probable requirements

of the army

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It is idle to

expect

that the Officer

Commanding the Royal Enginicus shall do ahercise here than elsewhere, riz: regard it

as a..

front of honor not to

girld a foot of ground which unde any preleist can posibly be retained. It is a pecution view of their duty in which I have found all Ordnance Offiers to participate. Even in reference to the proposed Road, which in any

26.

Mew

case must

have grearty benefitted the Ordnance