CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10] — Page 8

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HongKong,

to be leased near I have the honour to forward. an extract from a report fur nished by Mr Ormsby . Di- rector of Public Works, sug- -gesting that the boundary

line between Chinese and

British Territory should be

drawn in accordance with

the features of the ground and with the grouping of villages instead of by a mere straight artificial line between Starling Inlet and

Deep

Enelit.

Extract.

Tracing.

Deep Bay.

2

I enclose a tracing to

"illustrate this suggestion.

I refer to this matter

3.

Now so as

to place you

in

- possession of the facts before "the meeting of the Boundary

I am

Commission."

4.

sending

to the

British Minister at Peking

-α

copy of the whole of BW. Ormsby's very valuable report

photograph of the

and a

map supplied by him to

2

mr

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