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formed
ao evou ao
possible to build
"Light - house for the guidance of vessels. When the lighting of the coast was - commenced these various places were
those selected, but owing
all ar
among
the difficulty of cxpense of building, they
wwe re
quenc
postponed till after the easier ones.
completed.
There is an island.
island off the Canton
Coast, to the South of coughing.
there is pr
come 200
where.
pressing need of a Lighthouse. It is called the sap Rock. It area is only
0 feet by 100 and more, and ito height between 80 and 90 feet. Where is deep water round it, so that there is no anshorage, and the waves break right
storms. The available
over
it
space
during
on the top is only between 10 and 20 feet square . The rock is dangerous to ascend or descend, is mintrabited and produces nothing. A very slight want of
care at night may cause vessels to run into it, and the exection
of
↑
very
nicessary in the
of a Light-house is interests of navigation. But the work
will be difficult and must also be
expensive, and it will be no
no easy
bask
to furnish the light. Reepers with supplies when the building is completed .
Then I was at Hongkong for
arraut
the purpose of making. augements Concerning The Opium clance, the Hongking Government, as well as private individuals,
spoke to me several times on the outgeor and said they would willingly bear the whole expence in order to expedite the
undertaking. After my
return to Peking. Jagain received communications on the verljest ; and three proposals have
follows;
now been made to me as
(1.) The Hongkong Tovernment proposes to undertake the building and maintenance of the Lighthouse at its own cost, paying the keepers furnishing them with the oupplies needful for the light. In consideration
and
of
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