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Boulton, dated the 3rd. instant, of which I enclose a copy,

this view is accepted, it being apparent from a note on

Chart No. B-3785 that Captain Belcher for his soundings of

has karetofore

1841 adopted a much higher zero than had previously been

assumed, though it is not possible to compare with certain-

-ty that zero with those adopted for soundings taken in the

last 20 years.

4.

The comparison which has now been

made by Mr. Boulton in paragraph 18 of his present report

between soundings taken in January, 1887, and in January,

1905, in Hung Hom Bay show on the whole a deepening in that

small area of water.

5.

Should an opportunity offer I will

have test sections taken on the lines referred to in para-

-graph 19 of the report. These are lines in a Southerly and

South-Easterly direction from the Southernmost point of

Stonecutters' Island, in a Southerly and North-Westerly

direction from the South-Western extremity of the Kowloon

Peninsula and in a Southerly direction from the South-

Eastern extremity of the same peninsula.

6.

Should these soundings show no

considerable variation in the bottom to have taken place

in the last twenty years a complete survey, such as has

been