CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3] — Page 7

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island of Sering ?, near the Kap.

Shine-moon

from

pass about two miles

the Western linait of

Hongkong harbour. In the fore growns a feaddy fiets (rice). Back

of the houses in the middle are the village community trees, some of them seventy feet high. On the hills in the background

and

dotting

the

sky-line are

[ plantations of pinus sinensis, made

by the villagers from ten to __

twenty years ago.

جو

a

few years

I in

to

trust that, in

come,

the island

of stongrong will be able to ~

show it's hills almost as well

covered

€0

coverés with trees as any of the

neighbouring islands.

8.

All

Your Lordship will

see from W Lord's letter of the 27th of February 1882, that the number of the Pinus Sinensis planter from the mouth of Miss Bay to Lautas and folony, within the last fifteen years, by the

the islands near

the

[hinese, must be about twenty five millions of trees.

I have the honour to be,

My Lood,

Your Lordship's Most Oberent,

Stumble Servant,