Mountain adventures in various parts of the world . e western slopes of Mount Chirn-borazo, along the banks of the rivers Chanchan,Chasuan, San Antonio, and their tributaries. . The collection of bark in the South Americanforests was conducted from the first with the mostreckless extravagance : no attempt worth the namehas ever been made either with a view to the con-servancy or cultivation of the chinchona-trees, andboth the complete abandonment of the forests to themercy of every speculator, as in Peru, Ecuador, andNew Granada, and the barbarous meddling legisla-tion of Bolivia have led to t
Mountain adventures in various parts of the world . e western slopes of Mount Chirn-borazo, along the banks of the rivers Chanchan,Chasuan, San Antonio, and their tributaries. . The collection of bark in the South Americanforests was conducted from the first with the mostreckless extravagance : no attempt worth the namehas ever been made either with a view to the con-servancy or cultivation of the chinchona-trees, andboth the complete abandonment of the forests to themercy of every speculator, as in Peru, Ecuador, andNew Granada, and the barbarous meddling legisla-tion of Bolivia have led to the equally destructiveresults. The bark-collector enters the forest and 34:2 MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES. destroys the first clump of trees he finds, without athought of any measure to preserve the continuanceof a supply of bark. Thus in Apollobaraba, wherethe trees once grew thickly round the village, nofull-grown one is now to be found within eight orten days journey, and so utterly improvident are thecollectors that, in the forests of Cochabamba they. Eio Vinagre Cascade, in the Cordilleras. bark the tree without felling, and thus ensure itsdeath ; or, if they cut it down, they actually neglectto take off the bark on the side touching the ground,to save themselves the trouble of turning the trunkover. DISCOVERY OF PERUVIAN BARK. 343 In 1839 Dr. Boyle recommended the introduc-tion of the chinchona plants into India, pointingont the Neilgherry and Silhet hills as suitable sitesfor the experiment, and Lord William Bentinck tooksome interest in the project; ... . but this attempt was surrounded by difficulties, from which all otherundertakings of a similar nature have been tea was introduced into the Himalayan dis-tricts, it had been a cultivated plant in China formany ages, and experienced Chinese cultivatorscame with it. But the chinchona had never beencultivated since the discovery «of its value in 1638 ;it had remained a wild forest tree; all informationconcerning it was
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