CONTENTS. XV11 



the tea country un manipulated — Attempts to procure it 

 manipulated — Size of chests found too large for inland 

 carriage — Brought by sea — Also large quantities of Congou 



— Jealousy of Chinese government at this innovation — 

 Imperial edict prohibiting the shipment by sea from the 

 port of Foo-chew-foo — Importance of this port — Doubts 

 regarding the port examined and answered — Mode of 

 roasting and drying Bohea tea at Canton — Brick-tea — Its 

 form and manipulation — Its extensive use in Mongolia — 

 "Description of a fete at Ourga — Caravans of this tea fre- 

 quently fallen in with by travellers — Employed as a circu- 

 lating medium — As money at horse races, feats of strength, 

 and archery — Establishments of tea houses across the desert 

 of Gobi frequent — Extensive use in Tibet — Mode of pre- 

 paration for use throughout central Asia — Mixed with 

 butter and flour, and churned — Capt. Turner's opinion of 

 it — Mr. Manning's opinion — Teapots employed highly 

 ornamented — TeaofBisahar - - - Page 154 



CHAP. IX. 



Green tea — The Hyson shrub is the Singlo shrub improved by 

 cultivation — Gathering and manipulation — Roasting vessels 

 described — Mode of manipulation of Hyson tea — Colour 

 not factitious — Manipulation continued — Assortment of 

 leaves into gunpowder, Hyson, Hyson skin, and young Hyson, 

 by sifting and winnowing — Twankay tea — Mode of mani- 

 pulation described by a Chinese — Factitious colouring of 

 green tea — Experiments to determine on what the peculiar 

 colour of green tea depends — Factitious colouring of green 

 tea continued — Mr. Warington's examination of this subject 



— Experiments with steam — Observations on the use 

 of machinery as abridgments of labour - - 206 



CHAP. X. 



Heat employed in the manipulation of tea in China — at Java 



— Absorption of heat by the leaves limited by evaporation — 

 Proved by experiment — Cause of leaves not burning — 

 Amount of heat regulated according to the succulency of the 



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