172 M. Desor on the 



tion. At a maimd an acre, they would yield 7,000,000 lb., 

 which is equal to one-sixth the entire consumption of Eng- 

 land. If the application of capital to this object receives a 

 sufficient impulse, we might, in the course of ten or twelve 

 years, have the gratification of seeing England draw the 

 largest portion of her supplies from this country, and a new 

 trade of L.3,000,000 or L.4,000,000 sterling a year, grow up in 

 India, stimulating industry and diffusing plenty, and increas- 

 ing the mutual benefit which the two countries derive from 

 each other. The multiplication of the supply in such abun- 

 dance would also tend to reduce the prices at home and 

 throughout the world, and thus augment the consumption. 

 Nor must we forget the great impulse which these tea plan- 

 tations — a large proportion of which would necessarily be fed 

 by British capital — must give to steam communication be- 

 tween the two countries, and the additional importance they 

 would impart to the establishment of a railway from the port 

 of Calcutta to the north-west provinces. 



But the country itself would reap no small advantage from 

 the facility of obtaining supplies of tea at a reasonable rate. 

 The natives of India are partial to this beverage, and the use 

 of it will be extended in exact proportion to the degree in 

 which it is brought within their means. A rupee and a half 

 a seer, at which rate Dr Jameson calculates that the cultiva- 

 tion will yield a profit of nearly two hundred per cent., would 

 place the Kemaoon tea within the reach of the whole body of 

 the middling classes ; and the demand for it, in the country 

 itself, would be sufficient to furnish the highest encourage- 

 ment to perseverance, independently of the European mar- 

 ket. — Friend of India, Serampore^ Feb. 4, 1847. 



On the Occurrence of Stones on the surface of Glaciers, as con- 

 nected with Glacier Stratification. In a Letter to Professor 

 Jameson by M. E. Desok. 



New Haven, loth May 1847. 



Sir, — I have just seen, in the fine library of M. Silliman, 

 the 83d Number (vol. xlii.) of your Journal, containing two 

 new letters upon glaciers by Mr James D. Forbes. The facts 



