Excerpt from Coffee: Its Cultivation and Profit Up, many deserving that the attention of those interested in this branch of commerce should be drawn to them as supplying fresh fields for enterprise and capital, and changing by their prosperity the face of regions which, though once clothed in dense Jungle, are now patched with the luxuriant green gardens characteristioof the industry, and dotted with the white bungalows of European superintendents. To gaze over a tract thus changing hands - from Nature's to men's - is an ...
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Excerpt from Coffee: Its Cultivation and Profit Up, many deserving that the attention of those interested in this branch of commerce should be drawn to them as supplying fresh fields for enterprise and capital, and changing by their prosperity the face of regions which, though once clothed in dense Jungle, are now patched with the luxuriant green gardens characteristioof the industry, and dotted with the white bungalows of European superintendents. To gaze over a tract thus changing hands - from Nature's to men's - is an experience not easily forgotten; the fair and fruitful plantations already won from primeval barbarism lying along the hollows of, it may be, a wild upland valley, surrounded on every side by the swelling masses of forest only awaiting their turn to come under the woodman's axe; a mountain stream winding down the glen, a thread of silver in the dry weather, and a turgid torrent in the monsoon, sup plying water for the wants of man and beast, besides motive power for pulping, saw-driving, and all the other hundred wants of a plantation; the long ghaut road trailing away into the distance, with its slow-moving trains of bullock carts or labourers, the populous native. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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