AMHERST MISSION (2)
Continuation.
Perhaps the note on a waterfall in the vicinity of Aberdeen, published on Saturday (12-8-33) was rather vague and a reference to a map of the island will indicate that it must have been situated more to the west, towards the end of the "Hongkong Sound" of the old days and what we now know partly as Aberdeen Bay. On the map is a small bay which indicates the location of the cascade, called Waterfall Bay. The Squadron accompanying the Amherst embassy must have anchored almost opposite there for Dr. Smith, whom I quoted in the previous article to have been able to state that the waterfall was visible from the deck of his ship. I am indebted to a reader P. T., for the comment that the picture published probably shows the cascade which enters Lamma Channel near the Dairy Farm Property. He states "The general shape of the fall and the lie of the land in the background tallies with the waterfall I have in mind,"
The correspondent is probably right, and we can easily understand that at the time the picture was conceived (July) there would be a particularly heavy flow of water, it being the time of year for local streams to be at their fullest and thus the admiration of the visitors was excited.
It is pleasing also to know that this historic cascade has not been eliminated from the local landscape
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AMHERST MISSION (2)
Continuation.
Perhaps the note on a waterfall in the vicinity of Aberdeen, published on Saturday (12-8-33) was rather vague and a reference to a map of the island will indicate that it must have been situatred more to the west, towards the end of the " Hongkong Sound" of the old days and what we now know partly as Aberdeen Bay. On the map is a small baywhich indicates the location of the cascade, called Waterfall of the Bay. The Squadron accompanying the Amherst embassy must have anchored almost opposite there for Dr. Smith, whom I quoted in the previous article to have been able to state that the waterfall was visible from the deck of his ship. I am indebted to a reader P. T., for the comment that the picture published probably shows the cascade which enters Lamma Channel near the Dairy Farm Property. He states "The general shape of the fall and the lie of the land in the background tallies with the waterfall I have in mind,"
The correspondent, is probably right, and we can easily understand that at the time the picture was conceived (July) there would be a particularly heavy flow of water, it being the time of year for local streams to be at their fullest and thus the admiration of the visitors was excited.
It is pleasing also to know that this historic cascade has not been eliminated from the local landscape
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