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me, then let them believe also, that as it has been 

 with tea, so may it be with many other products ; and 

 that if the principle adopted with this staple, be 

 adopted also with them, provided that the experience 

 gained in carrying out that one experiment be 

 made proper use of, and valuable time, in other 

 words, hard pounds, be not thrown away, to save 

 miserable pennies, the results will be as profitable 

 to the Government, as they will be benificial to the 

 country and the people. 



There is no feature, as I said in introducing this 

 subject, in the commercial policy of the Government 

 of India of which it has a right to feel more justly 

 proud than the introduction of the TEA PLANT into 

 India: and to the results which have attended it, 

 I can fairly appeal as a justification of the policy 

 in regard to experiments, generally, here recom- 

 mended. The results of this experiment, moreover, 

 are not all apparent, especially to the English obser- 

 ver, on the surface. It is not all, that India now 

 sends England 2,000,000 Ibs. of tea, and has enabled 

 her to look on with comparatively small alarm at 

 the gradual destruction of the noble tea gardens of 

 China by the Taipiugs. It is this cultivation that 

 has opened up India to Europeans; it is this 

 cultivation that is making India known to English- 

 men; and it is this cultivation that will even- 

 tually bring about, in a larger degree then any other 

 undertaking, that eud which all profess to have so 



