294 NOTES ON ECONOMIC PLANTS. 



a report of this kind to inform and educate the public as to 

 the value of tropical products, was attempted here in 1836 by 

 Colonel Low, who published a " Dissertation " on Agriculture 

 in the Straits. Mr. CANTLEY would do good service if he, 

 like Colonel Low, would attempt to get trustworthy statis- 

 tics of the yield of rice and other grain and of various kinds 

 of fruit, etc., in the several Settlements, and of the profit to be 

 expected from cultivation of all sorts. 



W. E. M. 



