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might advantageously be containex in

straight line between the two points named. The arrended line, forming as it would, The Fase of

triangle, would be of leas bength than that proposed, and as the depth

water is count litter in expleso

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That

The live which has been in contemplatin

in the bolong, the cost of

the wall would

not be materialle increased, and the expanse The additional filling at Aad Jack

d we more than recouped by the valid

of the extra land reclaimed. _

Objections to this modification

maųş "possibly aorise in fre spot, which cure not apparent from the data in my possessing jindging nowever, from the documentos transmitted from the bolowy, The question

is one which is decerving of consideration by The Colonial Authorities.

The

Opilion

The only strong wrings expertures

the details at brong Kong are the typhoons.

Prese

of the Scheme generally commence by northerly on most westerką, questo, increasing to a gall between N and N.3., at which point, we will be observed from the hook. The harbou sheltered by the Kowloon Beninenia, Stonecutter's Island, The minimum distanc from land to land being practically one

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sea mile.

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Altro considerable damage was done to the old Prana wall of the uplo

of 1874, such damage Trodd be attrikitiá

malther to the meatisfactory character 3 Structure Them injured, than to the Loree

of the lea, as its no nimpossible that www.

moment could be generated acros

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modification