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seen a great deal of speculation in coffee planting, and 

 invariably money lost. However, mismanagement had 

 a great deal to do in the matter. The cultivation in 

 Ceylon is beginning to pay now, and probably, with 

 justice, will pay well. 



I should say there is much injury done by experiment- 

 alists introducing at once exotics from very hot climates 

 to colder ; for instance, because it is near, from West 

 Indies to America, to North of 32 of N. Lat. It is 

 easily to perceive the great change of climate there must 

 be in carrying a plant so many degrees of lat. from its 

 native place, whereas degrees of longitude change the 

 climate little ; perhaps any change in such case would 

 be owing to local causes. Every degree of latitude 

 crossed, is a certain degree of change, except intercepted 

 by great altitudes, &c. 



Judicious proceedings and perseverance will introduce 

 coffee. How has indigo been introduced, but by a young 

 lady possessed of these qualities, Miss Lucas, who, 

 like many young ladies determined to accomplish their 

 wishes, prevailed over every obstacle? The first at- 

 tempt of Miss Lucas was a failure, so was the second 

 the third was successful. I wish there were a few young 

 or old gentlemen, or young ladies to-day, of Miss Lucas'a 

 determination and active mind. 



Look at the cotton spinners of England in their en- 

 deavors to produce cotton in East India. They feel that 

 all the elements are there for its successful cultivation ; 

 they will not admit of the idea of a failure. The British 

 East India Company have expended some 100,000 dol- 

 lars ; it has got some half dozen planters from Georgia ; 

 it has told the people of England, " We have done so 



