. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . tal jeopardised, by the one great cryingevil, the utter absence of roads available for carriages. The old modeof transport is of necessity resorted to — that of pack-bullocks j and soslow and costly is this, that long before one crop of cotton be dispatchedfrom the place of growth, the following harvest
. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . tal jeopardised, by the one great cryingevil, the utter absence of roads available for carriages. The old modeof transport is of necessity resorted to — that of pack-bullocks j and soslow and costly is this, that long before one crop of cotton be dispatchedfrom the place of growth, the following harvest will have commenced fships which have been provided in anticipation for the conveyance ofthis cotton to Europe are meanwhile awaiting its arrival in the har-bour of Bombay until the shipping season shall have passed ; and theinterest on the capital thus indefinitely locked up accumulates, until itforms a heavy and grievous item amongst the charges of the operation. < The Cotton and Commerce of India, p. India under a Bureaucracy, p. 105. 346 THE THREE PRESIDENCIES OF INDIA. It is not, however, in the disregard to the want of proper means ofconveying produce from one province to the other that the authoritiesevince their apathy, and from which the development of the cotton re-. LOADED COTTOX-HACKERT. sources of India languishes. There are many other ways in which theindustry of the country suffers; and, perhaps, in none other moresurely and severely than in the surrendering of some of the finestand most promising districts, as regards cotton capabilities, into thehands of young and inexperienced civilians. Facts speak more plainly than theories or arguments ; and the fol-lowing, which hears upon one of the most hopeful tracts of westernIndia, is a case quite to the purpose. • The province of Candeish con-tains 12,078 square miles, of which it is estimated that the arable por-tion is 9772. Of this arable area, square miles are cultivated,and 8359 are Ipng waste.
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