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.of the chefts are packed by a number of Ku- 

 leers, or Chinefe fervants, they are patted over 

 with paper, and carried out of the warehoufe 

 to the factories, where they are weighed by 

 the Chinefe cuftom-houfe officers, in the pre- 

 fence of the interpreter, and marked red with 

 a flift brum, or with a wooden (lamp. Some 

 poor people are fatisfied with the leaves of 

 Rha?nnusThea, which they put into their clayey 

 water inftead of tea, to make it more palat- 

 able. In the account of the Dutch embafly to 

 China, it is related that the Chinefe make ufe 

 of a fpecies of mofs jnftead of tea. 



Soya, or the Tyongyao of the Chinefe, (Do- 

 lichos Soja Linn.) the Japan Soya, is better 

 and dearer than the Chinefe. For its prepara- 

 tion fee Kamph. Amcen. p. 839. and likewife 

 Soja Dolichos, F/or. Zeylan. 354. It was fold 

 the katty at three kanderins. 



Camphire is fold here unrefined at a good 

 price. If it is to go far, it muft be well packed 

 up in a tintenaque. When camphire is pack- 

 ed near tea, it fpoils its fmell and tafte. A 

 Chinefe told me, that the camphire tree was to 

 be found near Canton, {Laurus Camphora Linn.) 

 and that it was called Tyongfio ; lie alfo began 



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