No. 76

With reference to my despatches noted in the margin

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I have the honor to forward a Report from Mr Tiedemann, a highly
respectable Civil Engineer, on the subject of the line of Road
to the Interior of the Colony by way of Bute Inlet, suggested by
Mr Waddington. I am not personally acquainted with Mr
Tiedemann, but the enclosed memorandum from Mr Young, the
Acting Colonial Secretary speaks in his favour.

2. We have already more roads than we can make use of to the
gold mines, and I am not inclined to give any further
encouragement to the project of Mr Waddington, to which the
papers I enclose relate.

3. There are two practicable ways at least now in use which
could serve to open communication with the Eastern provinces
should circumstances require a road to be opened.

4. I would beg leave to refer Your Grace to the general report
on this subject by the Surveyor General transmitted in my
despatch No. 26 of 2nd April.