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The color of the liquor is also similar, being paler, 

 and more of the straw color than the general des- 

 cription of black tea. It is not so high-flavored as 

 the fine Oolong tea with which we have compared 

 it, and has been too highly burnt in the preparation, 

 but it is of a delicate, fine flavor, and would com- 

 mand a ready sale here." 



The Authorities in Thibet, to whom a sample was 

 transmitted by Mr. Commissioner Lu^hington, de- 

 clared the Kamaon tea to be of very superior quality. 

 They made many enquiries as to the locality in which 

 it was grown, and concluded by significantly request- 

 ing that no more of it might be sent their way. Thi- 

 betan tea, imported across the frontier in skins, used 

 to be sold in the Almorah bazar at about one rupee 

 per Ib. 



Dr. William Jameson, who succeeded Dr. Fal- 

 coner as superintendent of the Botanical Gardens 

 at Saharanpoor and the Government tea planta- 

 tions in the Hill districts of the North Western 

 Provinces, evinced, from the first, a warm and 

 lively interest in the tea experiments. In his report 

 on the first year of his occupation (1843) he states, 

 'the increase of young tea seedling plants during 

 the last season, has been 112,392, or equal to 

 four times the number reared since the nurseries 

 were first established in 1 835-36.' He was not quite 

 satisfied, however, that the sites selected were suffi- 

 cient to test the capabilities of the Himalayas for 



