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Further Progress of Mr Jameson'' s great Tea-Planting Opera- 

 tions in India, under the Patronage and Direction of the 

 Honourable The East India Company. 



"NVe mentioned some short time ago, on the authority of 

 the Star, that Government had sanctioned an outlay of one 

 hundred thousand rupees for the carrying on the tea-planta- 

 tion experiments on a most extensive scale, under the super- 

 intendence of Mr Jameson. We also intimated before, that 

 this officer had been deputed to examine the hill-country 

 west of the Jumna, as to its capabilities for tea-planting. 

 We have now the pleasure to announce that the grant is to 

 extend over a series of years at the rate of one lakh (,£12,000) 

 per annum ; and that Mr Jameson has been for upwards of a 

 month engaged in the delightful occupation of selecting sites 

 for tea plantations. He has already given it as his opinion that 

 Annandale andKotghui', in the Simla jurisdiction, are suited 

 to the object in view, and crossing the Sutlej at Kotghur, he 

 has proceeded as far as Kangra via Kooloo and Mundee. 

 A friend, who has had opportunities of hearing Mr Jameson's 

 account, says he was highly gratified to see the change that 

 is coming over the former country. " Villages are now being 

 built everywhere on the old sites of those that were burnt 

 and destroyed by the Sikhs." At Gumpta is the descent 

 into the Beeas valley, which is a magnificent plain, well irri- 

 gated, but only half cultivated, owing to the thinness of the 

 population. After the Beeas valley there is a series of val- 

 leys on to Noorpoor, viz. the Paklun, Kangra, Rilloo, &c., 

 varying in height from 3000 to 4500 feet, and separated 

 from each other by small ranges of hills running N. and 

 S. To the north these valleys are bounded by a high range, 

 now, according to a correspondent at Kangra, more than 

 half covered with snow, and to the south by a lower range. 

 They vary in breadth from three to four miles, and are about 

 eighty miles in length ; the general dip of the country is to 

 the south ; and from the northern boundary a number of 

 streams take their rise, irrigating the valleys in a most effi- 

 cient manner. The revenue derived from these valleys is at 



