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at one thing, though good in itself, being presented, 

 when another is desired or expected. A cup of 

 chocolate might have produced a similar effect ; 

 and this shows the errors to which travellers may 

 be exposed by trusting too much to first impres- 

 sions. 



It is curious, also, to perceive that when Capt. 

 Turner afterwards discovered that buttered tea 

 was no such despicable thing on coming to a halt 

 after a long and fatiguing journey, still he seemed 

 to cling to his original prejudice ; and instead of 

 ascribing the alleviation from fatigue which he ex- 

 perienced in the use of tea to some inherent active 

 principle in the leaf, he was disposed to attribute 

 its virtues solely to hot water. 



Mr. Manning found this mixture so agreeable 

 to his taste, that he frequently indulged in its use 

 for breakfast on his return to England ; and but 

 for the trouble of preparing it, this mode of using 

 tea might be found to furnish a refreshing, accept- 

 able, and economical meal to the labouring classes 

 of this country. To the Hindoo it would be a 

 very God-send, when we consider the spare and 

 little-varied diet on which superstition has hitherto 

 doomed that race to live. 



The tea-pots used by the richer classes of society 

 are made of silver, or silvered copper or brass, or- 

 namented with flowers and foliage, and grotesque 

 figures of leopards, crocodiles, dragons, or heads of 

 elephants and the like, in embossed or filigree 



