e poor native's
reach, he will readily take to it, having no objection whatever on
account of caste to anything of the nature of the bark of a tree.

If the cinchona tree were once growing in abundance, quinine could
be easily prepared in India, from the facility of procuring, and
cheapness of spirits of wine used in the process of its elimination.

I take it that every hundred Sepahees sick of fevers remaining in
hospital off duty for thirty days, drawing an average pay of eight
rupees each, form a full monthly loss to Government of eight hundred
rupees; while a free use of quinine and bark would cure them in ten
days on the average, costing at present about forty rupees; thus by
the twenty days' services gained, Government would save nearly five
hundred rupees.

But the cinchona tree once glowing abundantly, quinine would of
course become infinitely cheaper.

Under a proper system of culture, quill bark only need be taken
without destroying the trees, and an earlier return be obtained.

There never yet has been a substitute found for cinchona bark and
its salts, as an antiperiodic and tonic.

It yet remains for some one to find an equally efficacious
substitute, and thus make a fortune. In the mean time the importance
of the cinchona is paramount.

The cinchona tree, like the pimento, deteriorates under cultivation,
and in moist, warm, rich valleys the bark becomes inert. The best
bark is from trees growing on mountain tops or steep declivities.

From the full accounts of Condamine, Mutis, and Humboldt, a soil and
climate like that of the north west sub-Himalayan range is admirably
adapted to the planting and prospering of cinchona trees.

In Lord W. Bentinck's time, before there were steamers in or to
India, seeing the immense benefit to be derived, I sent in a
proposition to procure young cinchona plants from Vera Cruz, begging
to be then permitted to proceed there on that account, and my
proposition was civilly and even favorably received; but these were
not the days to act on it.

Of about the twenty species of cinchona trees the following would of
course be the best to bring--the _Cinchona bineifolia_, the
_cinchona cordifolia_, the _cinchona oblongifolia_, the _cinchona
micrantha_, and the _cinchona condaminea_.

The Calumba plant (_Cocculus palmatus_, De