Remembering the general aspect of what is now the British Settlement at the time in question, it consisted Lune of burying shanties, small and miserable in appear-sounds, vegetable gardens, with shops an ance. Open and offensive ditches were in all directions, and one had to be careful, alike by day and night, in walking to and fro, lest he should be engulfed in these pitfalls. The roads, narrow and unpleasant, were in some instances Inid with uneven stones or consisted of the original mud, which forms the native roads in the country. The whole place was in nowise interesting from the general look of it, and sanitary arrangements were altogether neglected or utterly unknown, Such had and it was out of the question to think of been the course of things for untold ges, the Chinese changing or improving the
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