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finer qualities of tobacco ; while in the careful culti- 

 vation of the various kinds of grain and oil seeds the 

 natives of Mysore require little teaching 1 .' He adds 

 that the Sovereignty of Mysore being 1 vested in the 

 Raja, and the powers of administration being- exer- 

 cised, in trust, on his account, the lands could not 

 be released from all demand for revenue ; and the 

 same objection is raised by the Resident at Hydera- 

 bad. 



It is a fact, moreover, satisfactorily established 

 by the investigations of the most competent medical 

 men who have turned their attention to the subject, 

 and, as regards India, especially by those of the late 

 Doctors Mackinnon and Spilsbury, that Europeans 

 born in tropical climates, and not reared in cold 

 countries, die out in the third generation, or if not, 

 become idiotic, or, at best, so physically and intel- 

 lectually weak and degenerate, as to be devoid of 

 every trace of that energy, enterprise, and vigour, 

 which are the distinguishing characteristics of the 

 Anglo-Saxon race. This is now tolerably well known, 

 and the idea of colonising India generally, has, I 

 believe, consequently been abandoned. 



It will be seen, thus, that, as regards the plains, 

 the Government of India has little to dispose of, and 

 that that little is not worth the acceptance of those 

 who can obtain all they require, if land be their 

 desideratum, in regions far more congenial to their 

 constitutions and habits. I have given these statistics 

 then, not because they were necessary to enlighten 



