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the results per acre of Chinese tea plantations, 

 so much desired in India ; and to the present day, 

 our knowledge on these and other points neces- 

 sary for a comparative analysis of the results of 

 tea cultivation and manufacture in the two coun- 

 tries, is defective. The difficulties Dr. Jameson 

 had to contend with during his absence, as above 

 detailed, were considerable. Yet, although the 

 famine in Kamaon and Gurwahl, resulting from the 

 total failure of the periodical rains for three succes- 

 sive years, was then at its height, so confident was 

 he that he could satisfy Mr. Fortune that many of 

 the opinions expressed by him in his first report 

 and especially those regarding the Deyrah Dhoon 

 were erroneous, and so anxious was he to remove 

 by a second report the bad impression already 

 created amongst capitalists and speculators by the 

 first, that he solicited Government to depute him, a 

 second time, to visit and report on the plantations 

 under his superintendence. 



In making his report, on this occasion, Mr. 

 Fortune found himself apparently somewhat ham- 

 pered by the opinions he had expressed in his report 

 of 1851. In some localities therein condemned, 

 he now found the tea plant flourishing a merveille^ 

 tlie most remarkable instance being that of the 

 Deyrah Dhoon. In 1851 he gave four distinct 

 reasons (vide p, 59) why this valley was unsuited to 



