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Excerpt from Tea Planting in the Outer Himalayah
When, therefore, during the recent mutiny, we first heard of this colonization scheme, we were disposed to look with feelings of wonderment upon any man who would voluntarily leave an English home for only a vague prospect of fortune, but with the grim certainty before him of leading in this country a fevered, restless, and unnatural existence. Such persons seemed to belong to that class who are said to embark for India with reluctance, to remain in it with disgust, and eventually to quit it with eagerness. Since that time, however, our ideas have somewhat changed; for although we should have been exceedingly offended had anybody questioned our ability to give an opinion on the subject at all, we must in truth acknowledge that we then had only seen the plains, and, with many more, wondered on what earthly grounds gorgeous had ever been applied to such an arid, hot, shifting waste.
After having wandered in the course of duty over a large tract of country, very pleasing to the eye when seen on the Hall of all Nations at Calcutta, and after having familiarized ourselves with Lucknow, the red walls of Delhi, the minarets of Lahore, and the valley of Peshawur, we eventually-were lucky enough to be sent to the Fort of Kangra, where we enjoyed the bracing climate and grandeur of the mountains.
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