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the purchaser is gaining his experience on another 

 estate. 



" Stretch your legs according to your blanket," 

 observes a sagacious Canarese proverb, and a little 

 good land is a much better investment for a young 

 man than a cheap and poor lot. There is one 

 guide to the value of a district, an old hand hints, 

 which may firmly be relied upon. If an estate fre- 

 quently changes hands it is certainly a bad or 

 indifferent one ; if seldom, you may be pretty sure 

 Coffee pays well, and further than that a man need 

 give himself no concern, for hardly any landed 

 investment pays so well in India, supposing we 

 have little or no blight or disease, as good sound 

 Coffee property, and people are therefore seldom 

 inclined to part with it. 



