80	A FINAL WORD.
	country, without any friendly assistance from Govern­ment. When, in spite of all difficulties, gold begins to be produced, we may perhaps hope for a telegraph station nearer than Ootacamund, forty miles away ; and even a bank, that will not be allowed, although a Government treasury, to charge a discount of | per cent, for cashing currency notes. We shall no longer be amazed at the sight of a half-naked coolie, trudging along the forty miles of road, with two or three thousand rupees in a canvas bag on his head, with neither peon nor policeman in charge. How it is that specie remittances, thus openly carried across the country, so invariably come to hand in order, is a marvel. But we can scarcely doubt that when the district becomes more civilized, it will not be as safe as it is now. Then as to the roads. Anywhere else, a railway would have been started long before now. English capital would readily be forthcoming, if a guarantee of four per cent, were offered by the Government. Such a railway, connecting the southern lines with the Mysore branch, would tap a most important district, and secure abundant traffic. There is a continual stream of labour pouring southwards from Mysore, and eastwards from the coast. The entire food supply is drawn from Mysore. The coffee must go down to the coast. Stores, machinery, tools, etc., must go up to the Wynaad. The Ghats are to-day crowded with trains of bullock-waggons all through