THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Jan. 1, 1902. 
We were kindly received at Albion near 
Ambawela. The Railway Station is only five 
miles from the cart road. This must oe a very 
great convenience to travellers and estate 
proprietors in the im mediate neighbourhood. 
Mr. A. J. Kellow has still some good coffee 
on his property and also some good tea with 
valuable orchard of English fruit trees. Mr. 
Kellow's coffee was very nice in the cup, and 
any of your readers wishing for good coffee 
would do well to try the Albion fragrant 
berry, the old original Arabica. Twenty-five 
acres still remain and seventy of tea. Beauti- 
ful English flowers do well here and are well 
cultivated. The climate of this part of Uva is 
delightful and the views of the mountain 
ranges surrounding are very grand indeed. 
People who visit Nuwara Jiliya should 
have a peep over the other side. Before 
dismissing Old King Coffee, we may mention 
that the old, king is by no rnemis played out. 
Be still lives. We saw good coJ}ee all the way 
from Gampolato Pussellawa almost free from 
disease. Our dear old friend H.V. was still 
there, but indulgent to coffee " within 
sound of the human voice." There is no 
doubt it likes to grow native fashion and 
cultivation and patent manures helped to kill 
it. We had a very long and hot journey 
from New Galway to Attampitiya, but were 
welcomed by our old friend Walter Stewart, 
one of the proprietors of the estate called 
Attampitiya. We were also glad to see another 
old planter, one of the pioneers of fiaputale, 
Mr. MacPhail. The old Government rest- 
house has been purchased by the proprietors 
of Attampit iya and the new factory is some 
distance from the tea fields down on the cart 
road below the bridge, Attampitiya is nearly 
400 acres of tea and is well roaded and drained. 
Over the gap there is a very good view of 
Narangalla and other BaduUa estates. 
The drive from Attampitiya was very enjoy- 
able and we found old 
BADULLA TOWN 
very much improved witli handsome build" 
ings, shaded by beautiful trees including 
tiie Fla-nboyant. The Government officers 
have planted a large number of shade trees 
along the cart roads and they are doing well, 
Dr. Johnson very truly remarked "that 
Hegions Mountainous and wild form a great 
portion of the earths' surface and that he 
who has not seen them has missed seeing 
much of the nature." So it is with the 
mountains of Uva, thousands of acres exist 
which have never been cultivated and are com- 
paratively uninhabited ; and yet the climate 
is delightful, what can be the drawback? 
Is it the wind during the monsoon or is in 
the want of water? 
The Ceylon Government could store the 
water and make this beautiful country in- 
habitable in the same way they have restored 
old tanks in parts of Ceylon where the cli- 
mate is not so bracing and where the 
scenery is not so gr.md and picturesque in 
parts of the lowcountry. 
The tea estates are few and far between 
and we passed underneath one with its 
factory looking like a "mansion in the sky" 
somewhere in the neighbourhood of Dick- 
BADULLA TOWN, 
with its new jiuhlic buildings, pretty gardens 
and well kept lawns under grateful shades, 
looks better than ever and we enjoyed our 
breakfast at the resthouse after a pleasant 
drive from Attampitiya. Passing a very large 
factory near the town and over the bridge in 
the evening, we reached Telbedde the old 
property of George Wharton Brown, our 
little experimental garden adjoining we 
called Rorke's Drift in honour of Bromhead 
and Chard, is extended to sixty-four acres of 
tea and amalgamated with Telbedde. Another 
piece of land we cleared for tea in the 
seventies, called Carolina, has also been in- 
cluded and a large factory down in the 
hollow. Telbedde is over 450 acres of tea 
and the coffee all disappeared, some of the 
stumps still being used for firewood. Next 
morning we passed through Stisted estate, 
opened in the seventies by our friend L 
d'Ks|)agaac, lirst in c^ft'ee, then in cinchona, 
then Liberian and other products, but now 
enlarged to a tine tea estate. Then we call at 
Blahapahagalla another old coffee property 
converted into a valuable tea estate of 250 
acres. Stisted \a ith 295 acresand Mahapahagalla 
with 252 acres under tea, m;tke 547 acres of tea 
fields to travel through from Telbedde to 
Debedde Gap under the picturesque range 
of hills cal ed "Yerli Mallie" or seven hills 
opened by good old Geoidie Morrice and 
profusely planted with fruit trees which I 
fear h;ive disappeared for timber and tea 
bushes. Ury is now all tea and there is a 
factory near the cart-road. 
Anotner of my experimental gardens named 
Cyprus in honour of Lord Beaconsfield is 
located at the 8th-mile post to the left. We 
remember taking Geordie Morrice to see 
Cyprus and when he saw what a pretty place 
it was, he said "you are a baadly used mon' 
and we returned to Ury and that was the 
last we saw of good old Geordie who spent 
over 30 years in Uva. 
MrMoorhouse, junr., of Mapahagalla walked 
as far as Urv with me and after rather a 
warm walk we pulled up at Passara. Mr. 
Stewart Taylor, now in charge, received me 
kindly and we had a talk over old times. 
There is a great change in this estate and 
very fine sheets of tea on the Gonakelle Group, 
847 acres, with fine new factory fitted up with 
the best machinery, lai'ge withering house &c. 
In going for a walk round the lower tea 
fields we came to the boundary and saw 
another little garden called the Khyber Pass, 
a piece of land on the gap we bought at a 
Government sale ; on looking for it, found 
a group of Afghans armed with sabres so we 
called it the Khyber Pass and planted it 
with cinchona succirubra. How many natives 
we have cured of fever with the crop it is 
difficult to estimate. 
We had the pleasure of meeting Mr Mathew, 
the Assistant on Gonakelle (a son of the late 
Archdeacon Mathew who contracted a fever 
in the Northern Provinces and died very 
suddenly.) Mr. Mathew is very much like 
his father ; we remember him very well in 
Colombo, 
