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Encourage and facilitate the removal

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of as many of the Chinese population could be conveniently spared, rather than by the sudden commencement of large. Colony.

works to attract others to the

I therefore fully.

Com cur

to

with Major Whitmore as to the superior advantages of a rough stone breakwater; there can I think be

no question what= euver of its immense superiority any of the other schemes, provided the necessary funds can be obtained for its construction. Major Whitmore's report

and the sketch attached to it shows

that line which it is desirable to adopt ;

this is not theore

theoritically the best line

with

regard

to our

necessary

but it is me

of

present defeners,

to take advan

advantage

the shallow water on Hellets banke.

Assuming that the stones

will sink 8 fut into the mud, and that

}

the depth of water at low tide averages

22 fest, the breakwater should be from 30 to 35 feet high; taking greater

the

hright (35 fert) this would require about 280 cubic yards of material to every linzal yard of the breakwater and the cost at 80 cents per cubic

A

lineal yard of the

putting yard the cost of breakwater would be about $224; this would give about $627,200 for the 2800

yards of breakwater proposed by Major

Whitmor.

Green

If the gap of 1000

gap of 1000 yards to the north of Green Island is thoug

thought

necessary,

it would be requisite to have.

fort

Bland and also on the opposite shore of the Sulphur Channel,. and to place the mine fields to the Routh and South

of Green Island instead of oppositi Belcher's Point. The Stonecutter Mine

Field would also have to be brought further forward towards the breakwater.

and

the

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