will yield tea of a superior
description."]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 17: See the "Pharmaceutical Journal" for June, 1849, p. 15,
et seq.]

[Footnote 18: Reports of Dr. Roxburgh, Mr. Touchet of Radanagore, and
Mr. Cardin of Mirzapore, Cutna. Papers on East India Sugar, page 258.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 20: Roxburgh on the Culture of Sugar and Jaggary in the
Rajahmundry Circar; Third Ap. to Report on East India Sugar, p. 2.]

[Footnote 21: L'Exploitation de Sucreries. Porter on the Sugar Cane,
53,321.]

[Footnote 22: That the above application would be beneficial, is
rendered still more worthy of credit from the following
experience:--In the Dhoon, the white ant is a most formidable enemy to
the sugar planter, owing to the destruction it causes to the sets when
first planted. Mr. G.H. Smith says, that there is a wood very common
there, called by the natives _Butch_, through, which, they say, if the
irrigating waters are passed in its progress to the beds, the white
ants are driven away. (Trans. Agri-Hort. Soc. of India, v. 65.)]

[Footnote 23: Fitzmaurice on the Culture of the Sugar Cane.]

[Footnote 24: The kilogramme is equal to 2 lb, 3 oz. avoirdupois.]

[Footnote 25: A lecture on the nutritive value of different articles
of food, by C. Daubeny, M.D., "Gardener's Chronicle" (London), January
20th, 1849, p. 37.]

[Footnote 26: Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society,
1849, p. 646.]

[Footnote 27: A lecture "On the Geographical Distribution of Corn