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capital, skill, and energy could be exerted with 

 profit to the capitalist or instruction to the people, 

 except the coffee tracts in the Hilly Western 

 Districts, for the soil in general has proved un- 

 favorable to the production of cotton, indigo, and 

 the finer qualities of tobacco; while in the careful 

 cultivation of the various kinds of grains and oil 

 seeds the natives of Mysore require little teaching/ 

 He adds that the Sovereignty of Mysore being 

 vested in the Raja, and the powers of administra- 

 tion being exercised, 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 Hyderabad. 



It is a fact, moreover, satisfactorily established 

 by the investigations of the most competent medi- 

 cal 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 intellectually weak and degene- 

 rate, as to be devoid of every trace of that energy, 

 enterprise, and vigor, which are the distinguishing 

 characteristics of the Anglo-saxon race. This is 

 now tolerably well known, and the idea of colo- 

 nising India generally, has, I believe, consequently 

 been abandoned. 



