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North Western India, which reflects, and will reflect, 

 as long as India continues to contribute to the supply 

 of tea required for the markets of the World, the 

 highest honor on the Government of India, viz., 

 the disinterested liberality with which it supplied 

 private persons and associations, with the means 

 of carrying on their undertakings, almost entirely 

 at the expense of the State. Actuated by the 

 woblest sentiments of philanthropy, the Government 

 of India, from the moment it was fairly demonstrated 

 that the lower ranges of the Himalayas would 

 grow tea with the view of ameliorating the condition 

 of its Hill subjects, has given this experiment its 

 most careful attention; and successive Governors 

 General, especially Lord William Bentinck, the 

 Marquis of Dalhousie, and the late lamented Earl 

 Canning, while publicly giving it their unquali- 

 fied support, have evinced the greatest personal 

 interest in its success. With a cultivation in hand, 

 initiated and carried on to a successful issue at a 

 great expense to the State, and with a certainty, as 

 pointed out by the Superintendent, that the 

 undertaking would give enormous returns on the 

 outlay, and, if retained in the hands of Government, 

 might be made a highly profitable source of revenue, 

 the Government of India, in pursuance of a high 

 minded and statesmanlike policy, not only declined 

 to avail itself, by creating a Government monopoly, 

 of this easy means of augmenting the revenues 



