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and maintained by Government, part by private enterprise, and 

 this liberality is the more praiseworthy that the European com- 

 mnnity of Madras does not comprise much more than 1600 

 persons, of whom only a very few settle any length of time. 

 The Europeans resident here are chiefly military men and mer- 

 chants, who leave the country after remaining five or ten years, 

 as almost every one regards his stay in this hot, sandy capital 

 of the desert Coromandel coast, as purely provisional, and 

 views it as a stepping-stone towards attaining some better post, 

 or becoming suddenly wealthy by some favourable conjuncture 

 of circumstances. That the majority of these institutions have 

 more practical objects in view admits of ready proof, and is but 

 one instance the more of the moulding power of surrounding 

 circumstances. In the school of arts for instance, under Dr. 

 Hunter's superintendence, there are 20 pupils, mostly Hindoos, 

 who are receiving instruction in drawing, sculpture, lithography, 

 woodcutting, etching, and photography. But in order to 

 reduce, as far as possible, the expenses of this institution, 

 there is also included a manufacture of earthenware, the pro- 

 ceeds arising from the sale of which are applied to the support 

 of the school. 



Another eminently useful institution, the Medical College, 

 which, as well as most of the other professional foundations, we 

 visited in the company with our hospitable and influential friend, 

 Dr. Kelly, possesses one division, in which such of the natives 

 as purpose to set up as apothecaries, are at the same time so far 

 educated as to be able, in case of necessity, to perform a few of 



