Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona Cultivation Into British India; 1860-1880
During twenty years the enterprise has since steadily progressed. There are now 847 acres under chinchona cultivation in the Government Plantations on the Nilgiri Hills, hmides 4000 acres of private plantations on the nilgiris, inwainad, coorg, andotherhilldistrictsof Southm India. In British Sikkim the Government chinchona plantations cover an area of 2242 acres.
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