Is it a sign that I've been working on this paper for too long if I find, "...as time went on people began to realise that it might be a matter not only of tea-growing, but of tea growing in Assam and adjacent States!" really funny?
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He's referring to the fact that the British East India Company had started transplanting seedlings of the Chinese strain of tea when the realized that there was an Assamic strain of the tea plant already growing in the area. So "it might not be a matter not only of cultivating tea on estates, but of tea growing wild in Assam." Make sense?
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