275 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view from the South Boat Quay looking north-west along the Singapore River towards Fort Canning. With moored boats in the foreground and craft (blurred through movement) on the river. The hill on which Fort Canning stands was originally known as the Bukit Larangan and was a sacred burial place of the Malay Kings. It was at the summit of what came to be known as Government Hill that Raffles built a bungalow in 1823, and Government House was situated here until the building of Fort Canning in 1859. On the river immediately below the fort is the Elgin Bridge, an iron girder construction imported from Calcutta and erected in 1863. The bridge, which replaced Thompson's Bridge, was itself replaced in 1925. At the right of the picture can be seen the river frontage of the government offices. These buildings were extended down to the river by J.F.A. McNair between 1873-1875. Photograph probably by G.R. Lambert and Co.