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an

experiment of temporary

obstruction on Kellett's Bank,

and (2)

chiefly for the

purpose of drawing. Your Lordship's attention to the- Military restrictions which have hitherto precluded the qutilization of the land above

(and to a small extent below)

Road

on

the

the Kennedy outskirts of the Town of

Victoria.

3.

3.

As regards (1) I _

may mention that as the

result

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result of careful observations -

extending

-over some weeks,

made recently by Commander oMoore, of Her Majesty's Ship Rambler, both he and the

Surveyor-General of this

Colony

are

agreed that no- obstruction on Kellett's Bank.

to

would produce silting to any appreciable extent, owing the extreme slowness of the water even at spring-

flow of

tides, and that consequently

the proposed experiment, if

tried

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