202 
‘After fatigue of body or mind, tea af- 
fords the most grateful _refreshmént. 
Kalm* observes,. that “it, relieves ,a 
weary traveller more than ‘can be ima~- 
giied, as I have myself experienced, to- 
gether with a great many others, who 
have travelled through the desart forests 
of America: on such journies, tea is 
found to be almost as-necessary as vic- 
tuals.” And let us not forget our poet 
Waller, with whose eulogy I shail con- 
clude my humble essays: 
The muse’s friend, tea, does our fancy aid, 
Repress those vapours which invadefthe head, 
And keep that palace of the soul serene, 
Fit on her birth-day to salute a queen $ 
‘TsJAA-PHILUS. 
P.S. I had intended to. trouble you with 
a fourth letter on the natural history of tea, 
its mumerous varieties and names, with 
some notice of the olea frayrans, and camel- 
lia sesongua, whose flowers are used to per- 
fume it; the latter of which, (came'lia se- 
sonzua) was presented to me by the living 
son of the late Sir George Staunton, with the 
Curious insect found upon it; but 2s some of 
your readers may not like tea so weil as I do, 
I think it time to relinquish the subject; 
though with the hope that some individual, 
as your correspondent Phytophilus, ubler to 
throw and direct the discus, may be induced 
to enter the field and exercise his more am- 
ple powers. 
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For the, Monthly Magazine. 
NARRATIVE of ad TOUR through BENGAL, 
BAHAR, and OUDE, 10 AGRA, DELHI, 
and other PLACES i the INTERIOR of 
HINDUSTAN, undertaken in the YEARS, 
691794, 1795, 1796, and 1797. 
“(Continued from Vol. xxv. p. 483.) 
VYNUE tide failing and the wind being 
adverse, my dandies were obliged 
to rig out their two lines and track the 
boats against the stream. _ This is a very 
tedious way of proceeding; twelve or 
fourteen miles. in a direct line, being 
deemed a good day's work ; and to per- 
form this, the boat must be drawn through 
the water at the rate of three miles an 
* Travels into North America, vol. ii. 
p. 314, transloted by my late friend, John 
Reinhold Forster, who remarks, ** On my 
travels through the desart places beyond the 
river Wolga, I have had several opportuni- 
tics of making the same observations on tea, 
and every traveller inthe same circumstances 
will readily allow them to be very just.” 
+ This is illustrated by De Bligny, who 
wrote in 1680, which he probably copied 
from Alex Rhod. Sommaire de Divers Voy- 
ages, et Missions Apostoliques du R, P. Alex. 
. fe Pataca ate as 
hour, for nine v 
the numerous angles formed | y the wind~: 
ings of the river. The dandies are. all 
employed on this work, and there only 
remains the mangee and goliah* on 
board, the former in charge of the helm, 
and the latter stands near the head with 
a long bamboo in his hands, called a 
Jugee, with which he sounds the depth 
of water as_we proceed, and sings it out 
with a most melodious nasal twang for 
the information of the mangee. As I 
was not confined to time, the tardiness 
of our progress was rather pleasing than 
otherwise, as it enabled me to go fre- 
quently on,shore to amuse myself with 
my gun. The weather was delightful 
pleasant, being about the middle of the 
cold season, when an European may 
follow the sports of the field without ex- 
periencing any bad effect; from the ri+ 
ver, the country appears to be one cons 
tinued forest, but on advancing further 
into it, numerous. villages enveloped in 
cocoa-nutand mango trees, and surraund- 
ed with fields of rice, present a most 
picturesque appearance; the buildings 
themselves are merc huts of mud covered 
with long grass, but being overrun with 
gourd and other creeping plants, the 
toyt-ensemble is very pleasing. An 
Open space about the ceutre of the village 
is generally occupied by a stately ban- 
yan tree, whose outstretched arms form 
a shade impervious to the rays of the sun. 
The peculiar property of this tree in 
forming a succession of trunks round the 
parent stem, by shoots issuing downwards 
from its horizontal branches, which com- 
ing in contact with the ground take 
fresh root and form another trunk, is 
too well known to need any description 
from me. There are but few villages in 
Bengal without one of a superior mag- 
nitude, under the branches of which the 
villagers assemble in the cool of the 
evening, to hear the elders recount 
stories of past times, the subjects of 
which generally are the feudal contests 
of the petty Rajahs and Zemindars of 
de Rhodes de la Compagnie de Jesus a la 
Chine, et autres royaumes de l’Orient, avec 
son retour de la Chine a2 Rome; depuis 
Pannée 1618, jusques 4 année 1653, p. 25. 
See also, Chamberlayn, on Tea, Coffee, and 
Chocolate, p. 40. Le Compte’s Memoirs 
and Observations, p. 227. Home Principia 
Medicine, p. 5. Cheynzi Tractat p. 89. 
Percival’s Experimenta! Essays, p. 120. ‘Tis- 
sot Dis. of Lit. Persons, p. 145. 
* Goliah or Guliah, is tantamount to 2 
leadsman on board-ship. te 
are his the 
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