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produce 50,000,000 Ibs. of tea-* But all the land 

 taken up, is but a tithe of the immense tracts, 

 now covered with dense forests or jungle, which, 

 though of a rich and virgin soil well suited to 

 tea cultivation, lie waste and uncultivated, the 

 harbours of malaria, the refuge of wild beasts. One 

 tract alone, the Nambar Forest, is four hundred 

 square miles in extent, the whole superb tea 

 land. In the Kohistan of the North Western 

 Provinces and the Punjab, according to the estimate 

 of Dr, Jameson, there are a million acres of land 

 available and well fitted for tea cultivation, and 

 estimati ng the crop at the low average of 200 lbs r 

 per acr e, it would give 200,000,000 Ibs. of manu- 

 factured tea, as the out-turn of the Himalayan Range 

 alone. Or, if we allow one half of this vast extent of 

 land only, to be rich soil ; or reduce the yield even to 

 100 Ibs. per acre, as Dr. Jameson has done, we could 

 still calculate on obtaining a supply of 100,000,000 Ibs. 

 annually, from this source, the greater portion of 

 which would reach the great commercial centres of 

 the World, through the London Brokers. 



Nor would it be necessary, to use the language 

 of the zealous, and indefatigable Doctor, 'in 



* The Governor General's Agent on the N. E. Frontier, stated 

 that the quantity of land taken up in 1859, in Assam alone, was 

 capable of producing 30,000,000, Ibs. of tea. In the same letter 

 he says an acre of land, well cultivated, will give six maunds (480 Ibs.) 

 of tea and upwards. (To Government of Bengal No. 118,11th 

 November 1859. Selections from Records No, XXXVII.) 



