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that could possibly result to a settler or capitalist, 

 could have been obtained by otber means, without 

 raising a question which in India must always be 

 involved in difficulties. Secondly, I think that it 

 was unnecessary, because nobody wanted it; if we 

 except a few persons in two divisions of Bengal, 

 who wished to dispose of some tea estates in the 

 London Market, and who believed that this kind of 

 title best suited English ideas and would conse- 

 quently take more readily with buyers, and some 

 others interested in tea land in the same districts, 

 who, not understanding their own interests, were 

 led away by popular excitement. And thirdly, I 

 think that the measure was unnecessary, because, 

 if the object of the Government consisted in 

 attracting European settlers into the districts in 

 which waste lands are situated, in those d istricts 

 from whence the cry for the sale of land in 

 fee-simple emanated, that object had been already 

 gained without it. At the very time, the cry for 

 the fee-simple was being raised in Calcutta, scores 

 of Europeans were pouring into Assam and Cachar, 

 a hundred and fifty thousand acres had been already 

 leased, and more was being daily applied for- far 

 more than to bring one third part of which into 

 cultivation there was even a remote prospect 

 of getting either capital or labor for. Or were it 

 true that both these desiderata could be obtain- 

 et l which, however, was not the case, the seed 



