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miles from one tract into another. Ail my Tea tracts about 

 Tingri and Kahung, are formed in this manner, witii only a 

 patch of jungle between them, whicli is not greater than 

 what could be conveniently filled up by thinning those parts 

 that have too many plants. At Kahung I have lately knocked 

 three tracts into one, and I shall most probably have to con- 

 tniue doing the same until one tract shall be made of what 

 now consists of a dozen. I Ijave never seen the end of Jug- 

 gundoo's Tea tract, nor yet Kvjudoo's or Ningreic's. I feel 

 confident that the two former run over the hills and join, or 

 nearly join, some of our tracts in the Muttuck country. Nor 

 have I seen the end of Kahung tract, all about that part 

 of the country being one vast succession of Tea from Run- 

 gagurra on the Debrew, to Jaipore on the Buri Dehing. The 

 Tea localities are thickly scattered — those that are known ; 

 and they are but a small portion compared to those that are 

 unknown. There is the Namsong tract on the Naga hills, the 

 largest that has yet been seen, and the extent of which is 

 not ascertained. The tracts on the Gubind hills are un- 

 known; and this is likewise the case with //a?^^ //b/^A and 

 Cheridoo; so that there is a large field for improvement 

 throughout, to say nothing of the Singho tracts, which may 

 he found to be one unbounded link to Hookum; and who 

 knows but it crosses the Irrawaddy to China ? Many Tea 

 tracts I know have been cut down in ignorance by the natives, 

 to make room for the rice field, for firewood, and fences, but 

 many of these tracts have sprung up again, more vigorous 

 than before. Witness that at Ningrew, where the natives 

 say that every thing was cut doAvn, and the land planted 

 With rice, except on the high ground. 



"With respect to the Tea plant being most productive on 

 high or low ground, I cannot well say, as all our tracts are 

 on the plains ; but from what little I have seen of the hill 

 tracts, I should suppose they were not more productive. In 

 China the hill tracts produce the best Teas, and they may do 

 the same here. Almost all my tracts on the plains are 

 nearly on the same level, I should think, ^'udwa perhaps is 



