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CHAPTER III. 



Of Experiments in India generally Future pros- 

 pects of Tea, Incidental circumstances connected 

 therewith Land, Labor, Capital, Properly in 

 relation thereto Localities, tyc. c. 



In the foregoing chapters I have given an out 

 line of the circumstances connected with the rise 

 of Tea Cultivation in India, adding, as I briefly des- 

 cribed the progress of the operations undertaken, such 

 information, statistical and otherwise, as I thought 

 might prove useful to persons purposing to em- 

 bark in Tea speculations in India, as Capitalists, or 

 Cultivators. Viewing the subject from a higher 

 stand-point, I have endeavoured, in an humble way, 

 to illustrate those circumstances which have had 

 a tendency to retard the growth of the experiment ; 

 and, per contra, those which have exercised material 

 influence in fostering, and ultimately bringing it to 

 healthy maturity, in the hope that, the experience 

 gained in an experiment, commercially, of greater 

 National importance than any ever before undertaken 



