360 JAVA. 



now the superintendent of the botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, who reared up the plantations at Kamaon, 

 also wrote an excellent paper on the same subject.* 

 I learn from him that tea may be produced there 

 at sixpence the pound, and that the expense of 

 transit to Calcutta would amount to about three 

 farthings the pound more. Dr. Jameson, now in 

 charge of these plantations, has recently confirmed 

 that statement in an estimate appended as a note 

 to this chapter. 



The quantity of tea manufactured at Java from 

 1839 to 1844, exhibits an annual average of 

 218,000 lbs., so far as the contents of each package 

 can be established.! And Mr. Jacobson, the super- 

 intendent of the plantation, shows, by calculations 

 grounded on the actual cost of cultivation and 

 manipulation, the fact that tea may be shipped 

 from that island at eight pence the pound. These 

 statements are also appended to this chapter, and 

 are minute and satisfactory in their details ; and 

 there can be no reason why tea should not be pro- 

 duced in India at the same cost as at Java. 



Indeed, if tea can be manipulated and packed in 

 China at its seat of growth, for seven or eight pence 

 the pound, as now shown, it may fairly be assumed, 

 so far as the price of labour is concerned, that the 



* Parliamentary papers on the Cultivation of Tea in India, 

 printed February, 1839. 



f This statement is made from an account of the quantity 

 sold in Holland. 



