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Latitude will pass through part of the Tea growing provinces, 

 Shangtung and Shansi, northward of the Yellow river, three and a 

 half degrees south of Peking. 



North Carolina, Lat. 33° 50', 36° 30'. Leaving the low, sandy, 

 desolate and unhealthy coast, and penetrating the interior lor about 

 eighty miles, we come to a broken and hilly surface, fertile soil, and 

 salubrious climate, which seems formed and destined to be occupied 

 by a vigorous and industrious population, for the very purpose of en- 

 riching the State by the cultivation of the Tea Plant. 



It will be noticed that we are now about six degrees south of Pe- 

 king, in a line parallel with the great Tea growing provinces of 

 Kiang su, Honan and Shensi, south of the Yellow river, and if the 

 Tea Plant will not grow as thriftily in the western part of North 

 Carolina, as it does in the above named Chinese provinces, there 

 must be some physical cause which the wisdom and sagacity of phi- 

 losophy have not yet discovered. 



South Carolina, Lat. 32°, 35° 8'. No cultivator of the Tea Plant 

 should waste his time in searching for a favorable location in this 

 State to prosecute his labors, until he reaches the high hills of San- 

 tee about ninety miles from the ocean. He will probably find many 

 places here suited to his purpose, but if he fails in that, he has only 

 to push on to that portion of the State, usually called the Upper 

 Country, in the north-western district, where he will find himself en- 

 veloped with hills and mountains, luxuriant valleys, crystal streams, 

 the most fertile soil, an Italian sky, and a Mediterranean climate. 

 He need go no further, if his object be to establish himself in South 

 Carolina. 



We are now eight degrees south of Peking and parallel with the 

 three most abundant Tea growing provinces of King su, Nganhwui 

 and Hupeth. It will be remembered that Peking and the circumja- 

 cent district produces the finest Tea grown in China. 



Georgia, Lat, 30, 42° and 35° The upland territory of this State 

 lying between 33 and 35° of Latitude, presents features d a rough, 

 hilly, and in some parts, mountainous character, which seem to de- 

 signate it as the only favored tract in this State, destined to form the 

 Tea Gardens of Georgia. 



Blessed with a diversified and fertile soil, a healthful and salubri- 

 ous climate, thtre can be no reason why Georgia, like some of the 



