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regulations regarding' the tenure of land, have had 

 as little to do with driving European settlers away 

 from some provinces covered with wastes, as they 

 have had, or, in the present circumstances of India, 

 existing regulations will have, in attracting them 

 into others. For the one result an economic law can 

 be found quite as readily as for the other, without 

 laying any thing on the shoulders of a Government, 

 certainly over-burthened already. Settlers were 

 attracted to these places, as soon as it was satis- 

 factorily established that their soil and climate were 

 adapted for growing- a highly remunerative crop, 

 and not one moment sooner. Had it not been dis- 

 covered that the TEA PLANT was indigenous to 

 Assam and Cachar, had not the Government, after 

 considerable trouble and expense, proved that this 

 plant would grow and flourish on the slopes of the 

 Himalayas, these regions would have been as un- 

 tenanted now by Europeans as are other provinces 

 where there are forests as dense, and jungles as 

 malarious as those skirting the lower range of the 

 mighty mountains that form the North Eastern 

 boundary of the Peninsula of India. The fact is, 

 point out where there is money to be made, and, if 

 the trouble and danger be not very great, most men 

 will go there. But give an Englishman a certainty 

 even a fair probability of the money, and the 

 trouble and danger will not enter into his calcula- 

 tions at all. Na} r , possibly he will like the under- 

 taking all the better for these accompaniments. 



