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their junks

Stonecutter Island a they went down in their, by hundreds, or wenn cassine on the rocky island at the End of the harbour & dachuet ficans. If this work is march the bay will hold an immuse member of craft a the home ofthe bay is shella & Landy. A typhom is not a sudden spadea, it gives warning of it's approach, a rias gradually to its greatest-vistener. or rather the sdy of the revoling stown which would. 6 strike the harbor is less violent than the centra

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nearest (Eastern) extimer of

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C.O. 5 MAR 1878

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DOWNING STREET, LONDON.

4th March

187

With reference to you leter of the

9th cany last relative to tho design

Harbour of

forthe construction of a

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refuge at itong Kong, for the probetion of the floating population,

Thave the honor to forward. a

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copy of a report on the subject by Mr. Matters - Sis I. foode's prin.

cipal assistant _ to whom, in the

absence of the latter geutterman, the

project has been referred.

The substance ofthis report

is, that the proposed Breakwater

is well calculated to secure the end in view, and that there

ston : R. A Meade

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