grown here, The whole country is practically covered with tea. They were astonished at it, for there is nothing it in China, where the plantation small and scattered. They How can we possibly compete th this enormous output 'THE CEYLON BUSHES, Mr. Lyell says, are much lower and smaller than those in China. the average height is five foot, and very much wider than here, but the Geylon leaf is more than twice the size of the Chinese, which, of cours Coylonjioutput much greater per acre, 200 Ibs, per sore is the most that can\be picked in Ohina, In the matter of MANUFACTURE, what impressed Mr. Lyell'was the economy of the rolling machinery compared with the hand labour of China, but Mr. Lyell thinks that machine-firing "probably raises the leaf to too high a temperature, and so affects the delicacy of flavour. The Chinese visitors drank a great deal of Ceylon tea, it seems, and have grown to Tike it, but they prefer China tea still—a prejudice which Mr. Lyell shares. He thinks Ceylon tea is stronger than the China article, but lacks a certain flavour which characterises the latter and makes it delightful to its devotees.
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