CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882 — Page 455

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The bastion parapet of the horn-work may be removed, and its place supplied on one side of the entrance by a small laboratory, and on the other by an artillery store. A cement tank for water may be constructed under the terreplein of the 7" battery. I do not recommend that any permanent barrack should be constructed iu! the work itself, but only a guardhouse in the redan. All the buildings in Singapore are very open, and a wooden fabric with attap roof is all that is required here. The interior space in the battery is limited, and any buildings constructed therein would be much hotter and more unhealthy than if erected on the adjacent slopes of Mount Iber. In time of war, temporary leantos could be constructed along the line of the gorge wall for the shelter of the garrison on duty.

to be hardly,

It would appear to be

mecessary to mount a

7" gun in the

Jalirut

оз дух

the redan

of

thee

gorge

as proposed

Par. 69.

As the barracks required for the

June detachments need not be built for a.

accupation in time of peace, it will be necessary at present only, to

prepare the ground for their bey levelling and draining.

They should, I thick, be placed

the ground immediatek, in rear of the battery, and not

a

thee

Western slope of Mount Imbeak, the latter position may be more

Exposed

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