l82 CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA. 



We have scarcely yet entered on the third stage to 

 which any new speculation, after the two first (the wild 

 venture, and the unreasoning panic have passed), tends; but 

 as knowledge of the financial results of Tea plantations in 

 the hands of private firms and private individuals increases, 

 that third stage will dawn, if it has not done so already. It 

 consists in a sober appreciation of the subject opposed to 

 both the extremely exulting and depressing views passed 

 through, and when it arrives, the great and successful future 

 of Indian Tea will be only a question of time. 



