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the same time its characteristics features, as also the angle of 
dip and course of stratification, and the general disposition 
and character of the overlying masses at the base, or above 
the level of the plains; such data would afford a standard 
for reference in noticing the various modifications , occuring 
in the course of the journey ; and as a basis for the con¬ 
struction of more elaborate descriptions than that supplied 
by common charts, would, in the absence of actual survey, 
be invaluable. 
In conclusion, for the crude and general manner in which 
the subject has been treated in the foregoing remarks, it is 
only necessary to refer in excuse to the object in view as sta¬ 
ted in the commencement, and to the absence for the most 
part of all sources of information, upon which to ground a 
more particular and scientific description:—that object will 
be gained, if what has been advanced should lead to a more 
able and demonstrative notice af any one point therein. By 
such means we may Jook forward with a hope, that, as our 
knowledge of the resources of the country, as pointed out in 
a future paper, becomes more matured, the application 
of British capital and enterprise will not be wanting to 
effect their full developement. To these resources, to the 
salubrity of the climate, so eminently adapted as a sanatarium 
to the continent of India, and to the character of the natives 
of the country, a race unprejudiced by casts, tolerant to an 
extreme in their religious tenets, of a cheerful disposition, and 
as little prone to iniquity as any class of natives in the east, 
despite the contamination of the dregs of society from all the 
surrounding nations,—to these desireahle properties, in con¬ 
junction with its unlimited resources as a new colony, we may 
assign an operation equally foyorable in its result; aud we 
may trust that under a just and fostering government, these 
Provinces will, with the revival of a more healthful state of 
British commerce, become more extensively known and ap¬ 
preciated, so that at no distant period they will have attained 
a position in the scale of commercial importance and prosperi¬ 
ty equal to their merits ; and in the blessing conferred upon 
the inhabitants in having rescued them from a tyrannical and 
semi barbarous Court, will be reflected equal honor on the 
British rule. 
