rally, as Utopian. Yet, if any thing can be done 

 in this direction, the cultivation of tea is most 

 certain to accomplish it ; and if its progress be 

 not checked, though we may not look forward to 

 the establishment of large European Colonies in 

 India, we most certainly can calculate on establish- 

 ing European settlements, and pleasant sanataria, 

 on our hill slopes, containing the homesteads of 

 many busy people scattered broadcast throughout 

 the country, and extending their happy influence 

 far into the plains below. We can further without 

 any great stretch of imagination, behold in prospectu, 

 hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin soil, now 

 lying waste and uncultivated, lost to the country, 

 and wholly profitless to Government covered with 

 rich and highly productive crops, affording employ- 

 ment to hundreds of thousands of (oft) starving 

 people, paid, for the most part, by foreign gold, 

 and returning Government a double revenue; that, 

 derived directly from the sale proceeds of the land ; 

 and that derived indirectly, but by far the most 

 valuable of the two from the increased prosperity 

 of its subjects. We can see again miles of malari- 

 ous and deadly jungle disappear, and our fine 

 healthy young hill colonies connected by broad 

 high ways with the termini of the great arterial 

 lines of railroads, and thus with the ports of 

 Calcutta, Bombay, Karachi, and Madras. Finally, 

 we can see at no distant date, India supplying the 



