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A large measure of success would be of enormous importance 

 to India, as the production of gold there would tend to reduce the 

 rate of exchange which at present causes so much loss to the public 

 and to private purses. At the same time, to be appreciably felt the 

 outturn should amount to several millions sterling, otherwise it 

 would not influence the enormous transactions between India and 

 Europe : these at present are the cause of a process of depletion 

 which is most detrimental to the best interests of the former -coun- 

 try, while it does no good whatever to the latter. 



