gesta, so as to give to each a distinct sapor? Or
_vice versa_?]

[Footnote 6: In the West Indies, from my own experience, I have found
this to be one of the worst descriptions of soil. _P.L.S._]

[Footnote 7: Correspondent of the Singapore _Free Press_, December,
1852.]

[Footnote 8: It is important, in considering what tea may be had from
China, to consider the manner of its production. It is grown over an
immense district, in small farms, or rather gardens, no farm producing
more that 600 chests. "The tea merchant goes himself, or sends his
agents to all the small towns, villages, and temples in the district,
to purchase tea from the priests and small farmers; the large
merchant, into whose hands the tea thus comes, _has to refire it and
pack it for the foreign market."--(Fortune's Tea Districts.)_ This
refiring is the only additional process of manufacture for our market.
Mr. Fortune elsewhere, in his valuable work, giving an account of the
cost of tea from the farmers, the conveyance to market, and the
merchant's profit, states that " the small farmer and manipulator is
not overpaid, but that the great profits are received by the
middlemen." No doubt these men do their utmost to keep the farmers in
complete ignorance of the state of the tea-market, that they may
monopolise the advantages, but it is pretty certain that the news of a
bold reduction of duty, and the promise of an immensely increased
consumption, would reach even the Chinese farmers, and make them pick
their trees more closely--a little of which amongst so many would make
a vast difference in the total supply.]

[Footnote 9: See article Thea, by Dr. Royle, in "Penny Cyclopaedia,"
vol xxiv., p. 286.]

[Footnote 10: Hooker's "Bot. Mag.," 1.3148. It is the Assam tea
plant.]

[Footnote 11: Report on Tea Cultivation submitted to House of Commons.
See Blue Book, 1839, p. 1-3.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 13: In China this process, according to the statement of tea
manufacturers, is carried on to a great extent.]

[Footnote 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