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bringing such results about, to interfere greatly 

 with the lands now under cultivation with cereals 

 and other food crops. Let each village, as in 

 China, cultivate a certain number of acres. Let 

 the waste lauds, and lands covered with virgin and 

 useless forests, there being no market available 

 for the timber, be brought under cultivation with 

 Tea, by means of British capital and enterprise, and 

 the Hill Provinces, now considered so poor and 

 wretched, would become as important to the State 

 as any others of the empire. Throughout the coun- 

 try, too, a wholesome and refreshing beverage 

 would be spread, and a great boon conferred on the 

 people. Nowhere does a sufer investment of capital 

 present itself, provided the undertaking be carried 

 on with prudence and judgment, than in Tea culti- 

 vation. But parties must not be led away by the 

 small results now obtained by the Government 

 Plantations, and suppose that all they have to do, 

 to make fortunes, is to become " Tea-planters," 

 whether they be backed by capital or not, as with- 

 out capital the undertaking must prove a failure. 

 For British capital there is a vast and boundless 

 field presented, and we think within bound, when 

 we assert that a million sterling or more, would 

 readily find profit with employment, if invested in 

 the cultivation.' 



There can be little doubt, I think, that a finer 

 field for the investment of that superabundance 



