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reserved for the Government, the high ground 
immediately fronting the harbour was set apart for 
the European and Chinese, or, in other words, the 
commercial establishment, and the lower grounds 
towards the Kalyen river, for the native town. 
A ground plan of the European town was sketch¬ 
ed, composed of ten streets, with four hundred 
houses; the great front street, consisting of one 
row, and containing nineteen lots, each of sixty 
feet front, and one hundred feet deep, being espe¬ 
cially appropriated for principal mercantile esta¬ 
blishments, Immediately behind the town was 
ground for an esplanade, beyond which, and on 
the western shore, were the military cantonments, 
and to the south-west of the whole, towards the 
hills, ample room remained for gardens and gar¬ 
den-houses, ground for a church, a botanical gar¬ 
den, and an European and Chinese burying-ground. 
Regulations for the construction of the town were 
adopted ; and in appropriating and granting lands, 
the liberal and comprehensive rules laid down for 
the flourishing settlement of Singapore were as¬ 
sumed for this meditated new one. 
“ Shortly after determining on the site of the 
town, a proclamation in the Burmese language 
was addressed to the inhabitants, of which the 
following is a literal translation. The object of 
it was to encourage the resort to, and conciliate 
the prejudices of the people ; but at the same time 
to hold out no assurances which might have the 
