TRAKS ACTIONS OF SECTION F. 687 



the latter country require a removal of the ruler. In a political point of view it 

 was admitted that the hills, although so little used, afforded suitable quarters for a 

 large portion of our English army, which would greatly increase its efficiency. 

 The development of the hill regions would create an availahle reserve, while India 

 would obtain what was essential for its welfare, greater security from aggression 

 from without and from dissension among the various conflicting races within the 

 peninsula. It was, however, chiefly in reference to the interests of civilisation in 

 the advancement of India that the development of the English population in the 

 hill countries of India was to be regarded. He showed too that the aboriginal 

 races might in this respect receive great benefit. The progress which had been 

 made in the hills within the last twenty years, almost without care, showed what 

 was to be efiected in the future. 



