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conomical haven it forms for the lighters and

boots which swarm

کھو گے

in the vicinity of the Peninsular Oriental Mail packets when

and

they

It

Are

moored to the companje wharf in that locality.

may

to the restricted height of

have given it

an additional hoo

pects of the vation without any public inconvenience masmuch

as all the cross steels abut on

hoadway it descending gradients -varying from 1 in 100

the

along Traya

Central to 1 in 160 in the Castian

and Western Pragas.

be here repeateds

tr...

the

regard.

proponed,

In

18774

the

directed

greater

my

first point to which I

attention after the typhoon

wall above

dea

level, admittedly

it's cardinal defect, that a height cannot be allaineds without

the

leaving the larger proportion of most valuable houses property in the Colony below the level

of This is the

to be regretted in when it is borne in minds that at

move

the street.

the time the original embankments in

the houses along it.

wad

made.

built there

باز

was the opportunity t

was this most important

the

of

levels, and it is to be much re-

gretted that it has not been found- possible to obtain a better result than that shown by the red line in the Longitudinal section, which low as it is, already left the floor line

of

mine

per

cent

of

the houses be-

-how it . In respect of the later

have

t

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