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athe former soon ceased; while that of the latter daily increased among 
‘the ttle more than a century ago, according to Lord Macartw: 
Skin Tea. it is that species of Hyson Tea commonly called Skin. Siao- 
tchoung-tchha—a small kind, the Saotchoun or Souchong of the mer- 
chants. Pao-tchoung-tchha—a species sold in small packets; the 
Pouchong of commerce. Soung-tseu-tchha, Sonchais Tea. Koung- 
fou-tchha, Camphon, or Congo Tea. Chang-koung-fou, Camphon Tea. 
of a higher quality, or Camphon Campony. Tchu-tchha, Pearl Tea, 
Ya-toung-tchha, Winter Tea. Tun-ki-tchha, Twankay Tea, Kian-peii-— 
tchha, or Tseu-tchoung ; a second species of Campony Tea. On-tchha, 
Black Tea—the leaves serve to dye stuffs black. Ye-tchha, Desert 
Tea—The flowers of this species of Tea are of a golden colour; the 
stem is high, and the leaves of a bright green: they use it in the same 
manner as the common Tea. Chan-tchha, Mountain, or Wild Tea. 
All these different kinds of Tea may be distinguished by the experi- 
enced merchant, merely by the taste. The situation of Assayer of Teas 
at Canton requires this sort of talent, and the individual who holds it, 
enjoys a salary of £1,000 per annum for tasting Teas only. : 
The quantity of Tea produced in China must be enormous; for with 
the exception of J apan, a province of China, it has not been gree on 
icable, though often attempted in Brazil and elsewhere, (and mainly on 
account of the higher price of labour,) to cultivate it to advantage any 
Where but in China proper: and there, the Tea-plant is spread, and not 
Very thinly spread, over a square area of 1,372,450 square miles. It is 
vow a common beverage throughout the whole civilized world. Its use 
in China reaches to a very high antiquity. An Indian prince, accord~ 
ing to the Japanese, a holy and religious character, of the name of 
ARMA, visited China, about the year 516 of the Christian era, with 
€ view to instruct the natives in the duties of religion. He led himself 
a life of great abstinence, and denied all manner of rest or relaxation to 
his body: but he was at length so weary of his fatigues and a that 4 
he fell asleep. Asa penance for so great a dereliction of duty, e cut 7 
off both his eye-brows, the instruments and ministers of his crime, and 
threw them upon the ground: each eye-brow became a shrub, and that 
nrub the one now called Tea, whose virtues were till then as unknown 
'0 the world as the plant itself, Darma quickly discovered the agreeable 
Properties of the foliage, which endowed his mind with fresh powers to” 
Pursue his divine meditations. Having recommended the use of it to 
disciples, it soon became general in China, and has now extent ed to 
_~ Temotest regions of the earth : while the individual who first disco- 
Vered its qualities is held in remembrance by a rude figure in Chinese 
| Japanese drawings, of an old man standing upon water, with a reed 
t his feet, and one of his eye-brows sprouting out into a Tea-| as 
,-INSCHoT is said to be the first traveller, who tells of a herb, with 
Which the Japanese prepare a drink, and which they offer to their guests 
' ; aS a mark of high consideration. Caspar Bavntn speaks of it in his 
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» under the name of Cha. It was very early in the seventeeth 
: . century that Tea first became known in Europe ; and we are assured, = 
‘at the Dutch at first carried on a trade, by recommending the Sage of 
Scountry, which they gave in exchange for Tea of China. The Wwe 
* English East India Company did not sell more than 50,000 : 
“fa, and very little was smuggled. In 1784, the consumption o 
