[10] Hooker's "Bot. Mag.," 1.3148. It is the Assam tea plant.
[11] Report on Tea Cultivation submitted to House of Commons. See Blue Book, 1839, p. 1-3.
[12] In a short time rain gauges will be established at Bheemtal, Huwalbaugh, Paoree, and Kaolagir, in order to measure the quantity of rain that falls annually, for the purpose of ascertaining how much the quantity and quality of the produce of tea is affected by the weather.
[13] In China this process, according to the statement of tea manufacturers, is carried on to a great extent.
[14] Dr. Jameson, in a late communication, remarks—"From the accounts I have received of that place (Darjeeling), I doubt not but that the plants there grown will yield tea of a superior description."
[15] The crops of this district, such as rice, mundooa, and other grains, are so plentiful and cheap as scarcely to pay the carriage to the nearest market town, much less to the plains. In Almorah a maund of rice or mundooa sells for something less than a rupee; barley for eight annas; and wheat for a rupee.
[16] There is frequently a discrepancy in the figures in the Parliamentary papers, which will account for a want of agreement in some of these returns.
[17] See the "Pharmaceutical Journal" for June, 1849, p. 15, et seq.
[18] Reports of Dr. Roxburgh, Mr. Touchet of Radanagore, and Mr. Cardin of Mirzapore, Cutna. Papers on East India Sugar, page 258.
[19] Many are of opinion, that although the juice of this cane is larger in quantity, yet that it contains less sugar. There is some sense in the reason they assign, which is, that in the Mauritius and elsewhere it has the full time of twelve or fourteen months allowed for its coming to maturity—whereas the agriculture of India, and especially in Bengal, only allows it eight or nine months, which, though ample to mature the smaller country canes, is not sufficient for the Otaheite.