Victoria Peak, Hong-Kong, 1857. Engraving from a sketch '...by the late Arthur V. Johns, Esq., [near] the town of Victoria, Island of north-east view of Victoria Peak, 1800 feet high, taken from the Harbour master's Flagstaff, showing Caine's House, late the residence of Governor Sir John F. Davis, Bart. Below is a Chinese Bungalow, the first solid building erected on Hong-Kong as a European residence in 1841, by the present , Col. Caine; to the right, on the slope of the hill, the Magistracy and Prison compound'. From "Illustrated London News", 1

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Victoria Peak, Hong-Kong, 1857. Engraving from a sketch '...by the late Arthur V. Johns, Esq., [near] the town of Victoria, Island of north-east view of Victoria Peak, 1800 feet high, taken from the Harbour master's Flagstaff, showing Caine's House, late the residence of Governor Sir John F. Davis, Bart. Below is a Chinese Bungalow, the first solid building erected on Hong-Kong as a European residence in 1841, by the present , Col. Caine; to the right, on the slope of the hill, the Magistracy and Prison compound'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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License: Licensed
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