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SKETCH OF THE PROCESS OF MINING &C. 
xiously return to their former residences in the south eastern dis¬ 
tricts, numerous enterprizing Chinese under the protection of a fos¬ 
tering- government, and with the necessary countenance and support, 
will attempt again the deserted mines or open new ones, and in the 
course of not many years, a period of prosperity and an increased 
produce of the mines, may again with confidence be expected from 
Thomas Horsfield, 
Note. —This Report was delivered to His Excellency Thomas 
Stamford Raffles Esq. Lieut. Governor of Java &c., in the -year 
1814, by Thomas Horsfield. 
Library, East India House , August 5th. 1847. 
