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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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A U.S. Senate commission, appointed via Hon. Rufus King's resolution, has surveyed coastal defense points including Boston harbor to identify suitable sites for a northern naval depot, considering factors like population, fortifications, water depth, and costs. They have completed work for the present season, with reports to be reviewed by Congress after topographical surveys.
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The gentlemen belonging to the commission, which was appointed in consequence of the Hon. Rufus King's resolution adopted by the senate of the United States, have visited, besides other places, the points of defence in Boston harbour; agreeably to the tenour of their commission. They are instructed, we believe to examine the most striking positions north of the Chesapeake, for the purpose of ascertaining the most suitable situation for a northern naval depot—taking into view, we presume, the circumstance of the locality of population facility of defence by fortification, depth of water, ease of ingress and egress, difficulty of blockade by an enemy, the state of present naval establishments on the coast, and the comparative expense attending the creation of new depots and the increase of those already existing, as well as an estimate of the number of men required for their protection in time of war.
We hear the commissioners have done all they intend to perform the present season, and we suppose before any final opinion is concluded, there must be topographical surveys made of the best points for fortresses along the coast, in order that all the facts may be fully understood upon which a judgment is to be founded. The question will afterwards be determined by a committee of congress, when the reports of the several commissioners will be laid before them.
[Boston Intelligencer.]
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Boston Harbour
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The Present Season
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commissioners have completed their intended work for the present season; reports to be laid before a committee of congress after topographical surveys.
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Gentlemen of the commission appointed by the U.S. Senate via Hon. Rufus King's resolution have visited points of defence in Boston harbour and other places north of the Chesapeake to examine suitable sites for a northern naval depot, considering population locality, fortification defense, water depth, ingress/egress ease, blockade difficulty, existing naval establishments, creation/increase expenses, and wartime protection manpower.