intercourse with the lower orders, and the possession 

 of strong physical powers/ 



Now there is much truth in Dr. Griffith's remarks 

 regarding the qualifications that should necessarily 

 be united in a person entrusted with the sole 

 superintendence of an experiment of so important 

 a nature as that under review. At the same time, if 

 it cannot be said that Mr. Bruce possessed them all, 

 it must nevertheless be admitted that he possessed 

 many that enabled him to render very valuable 

 services to Government, and to tea interests. 

 * Un appalled says the Tea Committee in a report 

 to Government' by the discomforts, difficulties, 

 and even dangers of travelling in the rainy 

 season, through the jungly country of the Sing- 

 phos, on the south side of the Berampootra, 

 he made an excursion as far as Beeralakam, on, 

 the Tarapanee, beyond the Burra Dehing river/ 

 He traversed vast provinces heretofore untrodden 

 by the foot of any European, discovered large tracts 

 of country covered with indigenous tea trees, and 

 by his knowledge of the language, and his con- 

 ciliatory manners arid judicious treatment of the 

 natives, he was mainly instrumental in establish- 

 ing those relations with the chiefs and hill tribes, 

 through which the whole of the forests and waste and 

 uncultivated lands of the province, were subsequently 

 placed at the disposal of Government. He further 

 successfully cultivated the indigenous plant, first 



