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year, and their cultivation be a source of great pleasure and 

 health to the invalids. 



Poultry thrive remarkably well ; excellent hill mutton and 

 cattle are easily procured ; goats and pigs are numerous. The 

 European fruits, as apples, apricots, cherries, pears, currants, 

 raspberries, barberries, strawberries, &c. are abundant. Deer 

 and antelopes, pheasants, partridges, and the jungle fowl, ore 

 plentiful. 



Of the men who were sent to the sanitory depot, it appears 

 that the greater proportion are now free from disease, and are 

 in fact become robust, and the convalescence will be still more 

 universal towards the commencement of the cold season in No- 

 vember, when it will be attended with no farther practical or 

 experimental advantage to the service to retain them longer on 

 the hills. Mr Cathcart says it is a source of happiness impos- 

 sible to describe, to witness the amendment which appears to 

 have taken place among the troops, especially since they were 

 housed just before the rains. The only cases which it is to 

 be apprehended will be permanently found to be of difficult 

 cure, are the chronic spleen cases of the Honourable Com- 

 pany "'s European Regiment, with one or two of the Artillery 

 who had been at Cheduba and Rangoon, and the rheumatic 

 cases (with syphiloid symptoms) of his Majesty ""s 31st Regi- 

 ment, and one patient who has had two abscesses ruptured in 

 his lungs, and must die. Good effects in their cases arc, how- 

 ever, to be anticipated from the frost and snow. These invalids 

 will have to remain there throughout the winter^ which is much 

 milder than an English winter, and also such of them as may not 

 be sufficiently recovered to be removed by the time that the cold 

 season sets in on the plains. 



The experiment hitherto has had so little fair play (owing 

 to unavoidable circumstances), and the period has been of so 

 short a duration (since April last), that at first one could have 

 scarciely ventured to pronounce an opinion on its ultimate success 

 or failure. But from the official facts recorded in the report of 

 the special committee, it seems now established that its advan- 

 tages cannot be longer doubted, so that the most fastidious can- 

 not have a plea for throwing obstacles in the way of its be- 

 coming a permanent depot. It will be attended with more ex- 

 tensive and permanent benefit thai? any institution ever esiR- 



