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herds of destructive wild animals, to shew how 

 greatly advantageous to this Province any measure 

 must be which tends to induce the larger introduc- 

 tion of capital, and its employment under European 

 direction, in the highly profitable production of 

 Tea: not only by the reclamation of the jungles 

 themselves, but by the consequent beneficial effect 

 on all the country/ (Letter to Government of Ben- 

 gal dated 2th October 1859.; 



And these observations are much to the point. 

 When lands lie waste and uncultivated in any 

 province, there is always a loss to the State to which 

 such province belongs. But when those lands are 

 in the vicinity of, and scattered here and there 

 through, regions already thinly populated, and are the 

 harbours of deadly malaria and wild beasts, and when 

 the population of that province are indigent and lazy, 

 it is clear that the gain of having such lauds cleared, 

 cultivated, and populated, will be increased many 

 fold. And that tea cultivation will accomplish this 

 and much more than could ever have been anticici- 

 pated, not only towards improving the condition and 

 social position of the people, but in enhancing the 

 value of the land already occupied, the short past 

 furnishes a very safe guarantee. 



' The effect produced in the district and on the 

 people by the cultivation of Tea 9 says the Commis- 

 sioners of Luckimpoor 'is already most marked, 

 although, with reference to the quantity of land 



