scenery. Here we took leave of Major Crewe, and however suspicious it may appear to give AND NEILGHERRY HILLS. 25 good words in requital for kind offices, I cannot help saying how much I am struck with the practical good sense that shews itself in all Ma- jor C.'s arrangements. He not only sees what these hills may be made, but how the work is to be done ; and he sets about doing it with a patient adaptation of his means to his wants, which must I think, and at no very distant period, ensure success. The order and productiveness of the storehouse garden at this moment may serve to prove what the whole settlement may become, if the same systematic attention be be- stowed upon it. Since I have seen the Neil- gherries I am less anxious to give to the Hindo- Britons any portion of them for a settlement. The advantages are so considerable, and must, I conceive, be realized so rapidly under the pro- tection, and with the encouragement of the go- vernment here and at home, that you need give nothing more. Whatever grants of land you make, whether to individuals or companies, let the grant be for three or five years, rent free, and then give a lease for twenty-one years at a corn rent, at the rate of one-third the estimated