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wood sprung 1 up which it would have cost him a 

 fortune to clear.' 



In the Punjab a very large extent of culturable 

 land is said to be available, viz. 7,626,785 acres. 

 But here ag'ain we find the same objection raised. 

 The Financial Commissioner in his report on the 

 subject says, ' These lands are not suited for the per- 

 manent settlement of Europeans, but the upper 

 portion of them would afford a fine field for European 

 capital and enterprise. The area suited from its 

 climate for the colonisation of Europeans is very 

 limited indeed. In fact the 800 acres at Kotgurh, 

 is the only tract at the absolute disposal of Govern- 

 ment which can be pronounced both suitable for 

 colonisation, and desirable from its known productive 

 powers, for the investment of capital/ 



In the Province of Nag-poor there are 526,081 

 acres of land, a great portion of which it is reported 

 might be profitably cultivated. 



It is said that in Mysore there are 2,9 17, 36 1, and 

 in the assigned districts of Hyderabad, 1,710,880 

 acres of land uncultivated : but of the former it is 

 stated by General Cubbon, the late Commissioner, 

 that ' even if the climate were more favourable, there 

 are not many (of these lands) on which European 

 capital, skill, and energy could be exerted with 

 profit to the capitalist or instruction to the people, 

 except the coffee tracts in the Hilly Western 

 Districts, for the soil in general has proved unfavour- 

 able to the production of cotton, indig'o, and the 



