A History of Assam c24.9

c24.9

Assam to investigate the question of tea cultivation, it is stated that "it was Mr. Bruce and his late brother Major Robert Bruce at Jorhat who originally brought the Assam tea to public notice many years ago when no one had the slightest idea of its existence." Lastly, there is the following note on the margin of a copy in the India Office Library of Mr. Cosh's Topography of Assam, published in 1837, which, I am informed, is in the handwriting of Captain Jenkins himself:—