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vantage, disposed of on the hills, where their intelligence and 

 activity might be turned to account in a variety of ways, for 

 which there is little or no scope in the low country. 



In the various discussions, which have lately been entered 

 into, on the difficult subject of colonization of Europeans in 

 India, it has been frequently stated as an objection, that the 

 climate is unfavorable to the exertion of skill and enterprise, 

 from its physical effects on the European constitution. It 

 appears to my humble judgment, that as regards the south 

 of India, at least, this objection might be got over, by the 

 colonists establishing their head-quarters on the hills, to 

 which they might retreat for repose and refreshment, when 

 their presence was not required in the low country — and 

 where their families at least would enjoy an European cli- 

 mate, and the benefit of an English education.* 



The location of pensioners on the hills is attended with 

 many difficulties. The habits of this class of men are not 

 the best in the world, and but rarely offer an example of in- 

 dustry, or sobriety, while the effects of their long residence 

 in the low country, added to their (generally) advanced age, 

 render them, in most instances, insensible to the advantages 

 of the change. 



* See ProspectuB of diiJereiit Schools, in the Appendix. 



