They might be established between Home and Montepoli, Rome and Civita Castellana, in the valley of Ceprano, on the hills extending round the _Castelli_ of Rome, where they would breathe an air as wholesome as that of their own mountains; for fever does not always spare them even there.

In course of time, the colonizing system, advancing slowly and gradually, might realize the dream of Pius VII., and would inevitably drive before it pauperism and disease.
I dare not hope that such a miracle will ever be wrought by a Pope.
The resistance to be encountered is too great, and the power is too inert.

But if it should ever please Heaven, which has given them ten centuries of clerical government, to accord them, by way of compensation, ten blessed years of lay administration, we should perhaps see the Church property placed in more active and abler hands.
Then, too, we should see the law of primogeniture and the system of entails abolished, large estates divided, and their owners reduced, by the force of circumstances, to the necessity of cultivating their properties.

Good laws on exportation, well enforced, would enable spirited farmers to cultivate corn on a large scale.

A network of country roads, and main lines of railway, would convey agricultural produce from one end of the country to the other.