14* OSBEGK'S VOYAGE. 



Sugar is to be got at a reafonable price 

 here. Powder-fugar is prepared in the French 

 ifland. Sugar-candy comes from Cochin, 

 China, and other places. The whiteft and 

 cleareil fugar-candy comes from Chink ew in 

 loaves : a pekul of it was fold at fix tel, and 

 three mefs. Loaf-fugar is not made in China. 



Te a «. The Europeans learned to drink thi$ 

 jnfufion in the fifteenth century, and fince that 

 time have vied with each other in giving the 

 Chinefe the mod money for this and other 

 goods which are become famionable: it 

 grows both in China and in Japan, of which 

 fee Kampfer's Amoenitates Exot. p. 505. et 

 feqq. where both the gathering and drying 

 of the leaves are defcribed. It likewife grows 

 in Tonkin ; but the belt tea, according to Du 

 Halde, comes from Fokien. We have as many 

 names for tea as there are places where it 

 grows ; and different ways of preparing it ; 

 J though all the Chinefe tea is faid to be of one 



e Tea in the Chinefe language is called Tia, in Fokien 

 it is called Te, and as the Europeans landed firfl in that pro- 

 vince, that dialect has been preferved. 



f It has been univerfally believed that all teas came from 



the fairje ihrub, and are only difiinguifhed by the different 



4 fhrubo 



