COLONISATION WITHIN EUROPE.
LTO THE EDTIOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—In your article of the 8th inst., on German colonisation, you speak as if all Europe were too fully peopled to admit of colonisation within its limits. Is this certain ? I have read a German pamphlet, written about thirty, or perhaps forty, years ago, by the once well-known Dr. Liszt, on agricultural reform and emigration, advocating German colonisation in the valley of the Danube, and saying that for Germans to emigrate to North America, leaving the valley of the Danube not half cultivated, is as if New Englanders were to emigrate to Australia instead of the valley of the Mississippi.
I believe the region of the River Plate is the finest region in the world still open to emigration, and not occupied by the English race.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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