[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 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.]