induce the Court of Directors to sanction the establish- ficial result ? Fortunately, these considerations have does not terminate his existence, renders the unfortu- and generally lays the foundation of some obstinate healthy and congenial climate of the Hills, under strict seen ; scarcely a single recruit gets through his drill, chronic disease, which in the course of a few years, if it low country at a more matured age, with well formed ment of a general Depot on the Hills for all recruits, " If these recruits were at once transferred to the enced to the temptations of a low country bazar, are exercise than a harassing duty ; and when perfectly pre- controul, as regards all necessary points of discipline could have possibly acquired if exposed yet inexperi- nate subject of it utterly inefficient for all active duties. individual at the head of the Government, and there is other respects, made to go through their drill under every reason to hope that his representations will finally not escaped the attention of the intelligent and talented I 2 constitutions and habits, it might be hoped, than they pared for their various departments transferred to the without being admitted once or oftener into hospital, 116 APPENDIX. we not justified in confidently expecting the most bene- and regimen, but allowed every reasonable license in circumstances where it would seem more an agreeable