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Botanic gardens, 
Singapore • 
3B th * I 'arch, 1^14, 
Dear H#li#ni 
With reference to the vote of- ?33CC (no. IP, 
$7 of the Colonial Estimates) for the in:movements 
to the Cluny Lake, X think that it will he convenient 
on p. 
to seek a contract 
at cr.ce. 
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In preparation 
X have had 
the 
depth of 
the lake 
taken 
0 
f r on the p r© s e i it water 1 e vel, 
whi ch 
is marked 
on the 
brick wall at the 
outlet| and 
fi. nd 
th at the 
average 
of 
eighty measurements is eight and one garter (8j) inches. 
> 
,L\ ^ 
depth 
to be 
at 
least 
three feet. 
1 art of 
this 
three 
feet 
can 
be obtained 
y presenting 
s • > v? 
of the 
■ 'ater 
unde 
r the 
brick wall 
mentioned! 
cay one foot* Shore will remain fifteen and three Quarters 
inches of mud with tree trunks in it to he removed (on 
the average) over the area of the bed of the lake* and 
to be spread over the adjoining low ? and, if we are to 
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obtain the depth of three feet. The area of the lake 
; 
is estimated at 
Out of , the same sum of $23C© the swamp adjoining 
p e 1 has to be filled from the • hill n c-vs it # — 
not from the lake whose good earth is needed ' to raise 
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p ' ’ , \,.n ; J- ' * • 
the nursery land. During the work the sprir-.gs which are 
two on at the* head of the swamp and the other at the 
head of the nursery can be drained round the edge of 
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the lake together. The filling up of the swaisp nay therefor 
be carried on without interfering with the deepening of 
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the lake. * 
An I -rat to jet tha greats 4t anouRt of r.oc-fl out 
