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coloured at Canton for the American markets ; and 

 also different kinds of black teas for Chinese con- 

 sumption, but from what shrubs or in what lo- 

 calities is not precisely known. The places indicated 

 by the Chinese are, for the most part, remote from 

 the city, such as Tien-pack, Sam-ta-chok, Wo-ping, 

 &c. But this green tea never formed any part, at 

 least of late years, of the E. I. Company's invest- 

 ments ; nor did the black, which was Wo-ping tea, 

 except as a mixture with common Congou to pack as 

 common Bohea, the lowest quality of tea imported 

 into England. What is said of the manufacture 

 of black and green tea at Canton, and also of the 

 conversion of black into green, and green into black, 

 and the use of colouring matter for such purposes, 

 must not be confounded with the regular mode of 

 manipulating tea in the tea provinces. All such 

 transactions, however extensive, can only be viewed 

 as frauds practised on Europeans. 



The total quantity of the teas manufactured in the 

 Canton province for the supply of foreigners must 

 be altogether insignificant. They are invariably 

 of the lowest description, and, properly considered, 

 do not constitute any of the teas of foreign com- 

 merce. 



Nor can it be admitted as proved, as Mr. For- 

 tune would seem to think, " that the black and 

 green teas of the northern districts of China, 

 (those districts in which the greater part of the teas 

 for the foreign markets are made,) are both pro- 



