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great obligations they are under to him. In the 

 complete success which has finally crowned Dr. 

 Jameson's efforts, he has his reward ; and though 

 from the general distrust in his prognostications, 

 and the consequent shyness of private speculators 

 to aid in the experiment, he has had the mortifica- 

 tion, to see other parts of India shoot ahead of the 

 districts under his immediate superintendence, it 

 must be gratifying to him to find, that experience is 

 daily verifying, in all important particulars, the prin- 

 ciples laid down by him iu 1847, when tea cultivation 

 was almost in its infancy, and a satisfaction to him 

 to know, that tea planters in all parts of India are 

 at last beginning to awake to the value of his early 

 reports. 



Nor did Dr. Jameson confine himself to simply 

 superintending his plantations and writing reports. 

 Through his instrumentality Mr. Fortune had no 

 sooner inspected his plantations and sent in his 

 report, than he was a second time deputed to China, 

 that he might make himself thoroughly acquainted 

 with ' all the different processes of black tea mani- 

 pulation, from the gathering of the leaf, to the 

 firing, preparing, and packing, of the teas, including 

 the winnowing sifting &c., and thus be enabled to 

 communicate the result of his observations.' It 

 was by his advice that plantations were further 

 enlarged, and establishments increased ; and tinder 

 bis watchful care that the cultivation of the plant 



