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ment, it may be said, that had it not been for the 

 zealous advocacy, and the untiring exertions of an 

 individual, tea cultivation in the Himalayas, as a 

 Government undertaking, would have been aban- 

 doned as it had been in Assam, and the noble field 

 now opened up to European energy and capital, and 

 native industry and prosperity, left in the undisputed 

 possession of wild men and wild beasts. 



It is impossible, if due consideration be allowed 

 for the natural difficulties he had to contend 

 with, the bigotted prejudices he had to overcome, 

 and, above all, for the entire want of any thing like 

 sound local experience to guide him, to over-estimate 

 the value of Dr. Jameson's services in connection, 

 with the cultivation of tea in the Himalaya moun- 

 tains ; and the highest credit is due to him for the 

 energetic zeal with which he pushed on, and follow- 

 ed through all its vicissitudes, the development of 

 an experiment, of the success of which he alone, 

 from the commencement, never had any misgivings. 

 A conscientious discharge of his duty, and a high 

 sense of the great national importance of the in- 

 teresting experiment which he had been intrusted 

 by Government to superintend, were doubtless the 

 main incentives to Dr. Jameson's exertions; at 

 the same time, it is proper to record the great 

 value of his services to tea interests in North 

 Western India, and to point out to those who are 

 low about to profit so largely by his labours, the 



