

TEA PLANTING IN THE OUTEE HIIALATAH. 



ALTHOUGH India has been brought so near home by 

 means of the overland route and the electric telegraph, 

 and has been successively described from almost every 

 point of view, yet there is one subject connected with 

 this vast peninsula which has hitherto attracted but 

 little notice. At the present moment, when the resources 

 of India are being carefully opened up and explored, in 

 order that a system of future credits may secure the 

 prosperity and advancement of this vast empire, the 

 following brief sketch of a tea plantation in the 

 Himalayahs may not be deemed inopportune. 



Though a committee of the House of Commons has 

 investigated the possibility of colonizing India, and a 

 large amount of information is to be found in blue-books 

 and newspapers, there are few persons, nevertheless, that 

 can form a just idea of the insurmountable difficulties to 

 be encountered by any one who, alone and unconnected 

 with the " service," would attempt to win a home or 

 carve out a fortune in this country, which, up to a recent 

 period, has been jealously guarded against all innovation 

 and extraneous influences. 



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