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his course lay. Unfortunately an attack made upon him 

 and the escort with which he had been provided by the 

 Maharaja Shere Sing, when he was examining the 

 Khuttuck Hills, prevented the fulfilment of the main 

 object of the expedition. He lost everything he possessed, 

 including note books and specimens, excepting the clothes 

 he wore, and nine of his servants and contingent guard 

 were killed or desperately wounded. He himself was 

 taken prisoner and kept for four months in the Kohat fort, 

 until Col. Mackeson arranged for his liberation on ransom. 

 The results of this interesting mission are contained in a 

 report on the Geology, Zoology, &c., of the Punjab and part 

 of Afghanistan, in Jour. As. Soc. Benrj. (vol. xi. p. 183). 



In the following year Mr Jameson was rewarded for 

 these services by being appointed to officiate as Super- 

 intendent of the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore in suc- 

 cession to Dr Falconer, who had been seriously ill, and 

 who was removed to Calcutta. Soon after he was con- 

 firmed in that appointment, and thus he entered on that 

 work with which his name will ever be associated, viz., 

 tea cultivation in North India. 



Under Lord Dalhousie's enlightened Government, Mr 

 Jameson's proposals for the introduction of tea culture 

 received great encouragement. Tea plants, tea seeds, even 

 tea manufacturers, were imported from Chusan, Ningpo, 

 and other districts of China, while plantations on a large 

 scale were formed at Deyrah Doon, on the hills near 

 Mussouri, in Kumaon, in Gurhwal, and in the Punjab in 

 the Kangra valley, and as far north-west as Hazara. 

 Gradually the attention of settlers was attracted to this 

 new industry, and tea seeds and plants were distributed lo 

 all who were prepared to engage in their cultivation. 



We let Jameson's enthusiasm speak for itself in his 

 report for 1855 : — 



" The tea plant is now thriving over 4 J degrees of latitude, and 83 

 degrees of longitude ; or from Hazara in the west, to the Kali Nuddi 

 in Kumaon in the east, and from Deyrah Doon in the south to 

 Eamaserai in the north, over a tract containing upwards of 30,000 

 square miles. In this mighty tract there is a sufficient quantity of 

 land fitted for tea cultivation, as, if so used, would not only pro- 

 duce teas capable of supplying the whole of India, hut the wliole 

 European market. The crops now grown in the hills yield but a 



