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at Jeypore, and we believe by Colonel White, Mr. Bigge, 

 and Captain Jenkins at Namroop, Jeypore, Boorthath, &c. 

 or the nurseries cultivated at Suddyah, by Capt. Charlton, 

 as early as 1834. We shall merely endeavour to examine 

 what information the report before us conveys regarding the 

 existence of 120 tea tracts alluded to above. 



Mr. Bruce in crossing a hill 800 feet high at Jeypore, 

 found a tea-tract, which must be three miles in length, as 

 he could not see the end of it ; and at the foot of this hill 

 he saw another tract, which he had not time to explore. He 

 next found tea on Cheriedoo, a small hill close to the Dacca 

 River ; and again, after crossing the river, at a place called 

 Hauthoweah, near the old fort of Ghergong. Neither of 

 these four places Mr. Bruce had time to examine, with a 

 view to the collection of any further personal information than 

 that which we have above stated. Again, Mr. Bruce found 

 tea to the south-west of Gabrew; and thus the 120 localities 

 are reduced to five, in which he has himself seen the tea 

 plant growing, even supposing his experience to be such as 

 to render his mistaking some other plant for tea unlikely, 

 which is by no means certain, particularly as he mentions 

 having found on the west of the Dhunseree, a different 

 species from what we use, but still tea. 



With this amount of new information, Mr. Bruce proves 

 by argument, as well as the reports of natives " well ac- 

 quainted with the leaf, having been in the habit of drinking 

 tea," that large tracts of the Naga mountains are covered 

 with tea plants. On information not one whit more satis- 

 factory than that on which Mr. B. clothed large tracts of 

 the Naga mountains with tea plants, has he covered a large 

 proportion of Upper Assam with them, though we have no 

 doubt it will be found, after all, that it is confined to a few 

 limited patches here and there, in various parts of the forests, 

 and by no means universally diffused, and abundant, as 

 Mr. Bruce's report would lead the public to imagine. 



As a specimen of Mr. Bruce's way of showing the 



