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The Eastern Tropical dependencies — in Asia, 

 and in the Indian seas.' 



The Nortliern dependencies — Canada, Nova 

 Scotia, and New Brunswick. 



The Southern dependencies — the Cape of Good 

 Hope and New Holland, including Van Dieuien's 

 Land. 



The agricultural interests of the Western Tropical 

 dependencies are aftected by the high fiscal insti- 

 tutionSy or high revenue system of the United 

 Kingdom, not by preventing the more extensive 

 cultivation of those countries, because the law 

 which prevents the further importation of African 

 laborers, prescribes the hmit to their cultivation ; — 

 but by lowering the profits and checking the pros- 

 perity of the planter. 



The means by which the high revenue system of 

 the United Kingdom produces these effects, appear 

 to be ; — 



First. By repressing and lowering the extent 

 and condition of tlie population of the British 

 Isles, the chief market for the produce of the 

 Western Tropical plantations. 



Second. By the high duty on sugar and other 

 productions of these dependencies, which cannot 

 fail to check consumption. 



Third. By the additional cost, incidental to the 

 high revenue system, of the extensive annual sup- 



' See Appendix, E. 



