 | 1803 - 572 páginas
...native in the forests of this island. I have in my possession a letter from an officer in the Both regt. wherein he states that he had found the real tea-plant...ever grew in China ; and that it was in his power to pomt out to Government the means of cultivating it in a proper manner. The vast advantages to be derived... | |
 | Robert Percival - 1803 - 504 páginas
....forests of this island. I have-; in' ikyj possession a : letter fronii an officer in the 80th xegt. wherein he states that he had found the real tea-plant...'the woods of Ceylon, of .a quality equal to any that uever grew- in China; and. that it was in Jus pow^r to poin£J oat to Government the meaas of cultivating... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - 1814 - 568 páginas
...letter from an officer in the 80th regiment, wherein he .states, that he had found the real tea plant in the woods of Ceylon of a " quality equal to any...vast advantages to be derived from the cultivation ol the tea plant in our dominions ought at least to " prompt a speedy and vigorous experiment on the... | |
 | 1844 - 752 páginas
...of this work that he had found the real plant in the woods of Ceylon, of a quality equal to any thai ever grew in China, and that it was in his power to...Government the means of cultivating it in a proper manner." Mr. Bennett's attention, whicb seemed always awake, was directed to the culture of the mulberry plant... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 726 páginas
...letter from an officer in the 80th regiment, in which he states that he had found the real tea plant in the woods of Ceylon of a quality equal to any that ever grew in China " (PercivaFs Account of Ceylon, 2nd edit. 4to, 1805, pp. 330, 331). Harvard (Narrative of the Mission... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 748 páginas
...spontaneously in the neighbourhood of Trin- ' comalee and other northern parts of Ceylon I have in of Ceylon of a quality equal to any that ever grew in China" (Percival's Account of Ceylon, 2nd edit. 4to, 1805, pp. 330, 331). Harvard (Narrative of the Mission... | |
 | Arthur Reade - 1884 - 178 páginas
...... I have in my possession a letter from an officer in the 80th Regiment, in which he states that he found the real tea-plant in the woods of Ceylon of a quality equal to any that ever grew in China." Alarge quantity of tea is now imported from this island, and new plantations, it is reported, are being... | |
 | 1817 - 1000 páginas
...this tea to coffee. I have in my possession a letter from an officer in the 80th regiment, in which he states that he had found the real teaplant, in...advantages to be derived from the cultivation of the teaplant in our own dominions, ought at least to prompt a speedy and vigorous experiment on the subject.... | |
 | Manuela D. Domingos - 1995 - 854 páginas
...native in the forests of this island, I have in my possession a letter from an officer in the 80th regt. wherein he states that he had found the real tea-plant...cultivating it in a proper manner. The vast advantages to be made. The troops on a march have found it of great benefit to cut up some of these chillies in their... | |
 | John Whitchurch Bennett - 1843 - 558 páginas
...letter from an officer in the 80th regiment, in which he states that he had found the real tea plant, in the woods of Ceylon, of a quality equal to any...government the means of cultivating it in a proper manner." From Paltoopane to Mahagamme, where the Kirinde-Oya is forded, the distance is 9£ miles ; the rest-house... | |
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