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to take them up. Nothing then can be more clearly 

 demonstrated than, that previous regulations regard- 

 ing 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 fouud quite as readily as for the other, without 

 laying any thing on the shoulders of a Govern- 

 ment, certainly over-burthened already. Settlers 

 were attracted to these places, as soon as it was 

 satisfactorily established that their soil and climate 

 were adapted for growing a highly remunerative 

 crop, and not one moment sooner. Had it not 

 been discovered 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 nourish on the 

 slopes of the Himalayas, these regions, would 

 have been as untenanted 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 dan- 

 ger be not very great, most men will go there. 

 But give an Englishman a certainty even a fair 



