4 o OS BECK'S VOYAG E. 



to receive the benefit of it, we mould firft learn 

 to prepare tea, which may turn out more diffi- 

 cult than we have hitherto imagined ; for fome 

 prepare tea fo ill even in China, that it does 

 not tafte fo well as one of our Swedifi teas. 

 But, fuppofing we knew the beft method of 

 drying it, we could never fell a pound of home- 

 made tea fo cheap as the Chinefe tea, while 

 Sweden has not proportionably the fame num- 

 ber of induftrious inhabitants as China b . 



After we had failed a good way, we faw 

 a great mouth of the river opening into the 

 fea on the right ; but we failed to Bocca Tiger, 

 whofe caflles were htuated on the naked hills 

 of two iflands, about which only fome trees 

 were planted. They were exactly oppofite to 

 each other. That which is neareft to the con- 

 tinent is the higheft, 



In the evening we cafl our anchor along with 

 a French fhip bound for Macao* 



h Dr. Linneeu: has had fince (the 3d of OSolcr, 1763,} 

 a fine tea-fhrub brought him from China, by Captain Carl. 

 Qujlav. Eckeberg, w hich is, as far as we know, the only 



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