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of prosperity Land, Labour, and Capital has not 

 been accurately apprehended. Regarding- land there 

 could be no mistake. Vast tracts were there. 

 Capital, people were not quite so certain about. It 

 might be there but if so, it was locked up hoarded. 

 In the matter of population, however, there were no 

 doubts whatever. Every body firmly believed it to 

 be excessive. But it appears that on the attempt 

 being made to reclaim one, out of the many provinces 

 of this great peninsula in which large tracts are 

 waste, the failure was not in that element regarding 

 which people had fears Capital; but in that in 

 which people least expected it Population. This 

 now is known and admitted ; and it may be hoped that 

 with the light of this new knowledge, the question 

 will be differently viewed, and that if invitations be 

 still held out to English capitalists to bring or send 

 their money into India, some endeavour will be made 

 to aid. them in obtaining the means of making* use of 

 it. If not, capitalists will decline the offers made, 

 and the solution of the problem must be left to time 

 and circumstances.* 



That it is the duty of a Government, with popula- 

 tion excessive in some parts, and large tracts of rich 

 land unpopulated in others, to take some measures 

 to encourage the transfer of the surplus population 



* This result has unhappily now been brought about. The 

 Capitalists who had come into the Province to reclaim it, are 

 rapidly abandoning it, and the land they had reclaimed is 

 relapsing into jungle. January, 1867. 



