TCHEE-TSE, TUNA. ORANGE. 341 



Throughout Mongolia and Siberia, all classes are almost 

 as great consumers as in China. The tea used by these 

 is called brick tea ; it is in hard cakes, eighteen inches long, 

 nine broad, and near an inch thick. This is boiled in 

 milk, thickened with rye meal, and seasoned with salt ; 

 the Tartars making a meal of what the Chinese drink. 

 All this comes from China, and is genuine. Extensively 

 also is tea used in Tonquin, Cochin China, Camboja, 

 Siam, and the country of the Burmese. These last re- 

 ceive it over land from Yunan, in large balls, compactly 

 formed, of about five inches in diameter, or of the size of 

 an eighteen pound shot. In this way, as the Jesuits assert, 

 the coarse teas of Yunan are always prepared. 



TCHEE-TSE. 



A fruit of China, which resembles a fig, about the size 

 of an ordinary apple, and which, when dried and flattened, 

 is called Tehee-ping, and is then equal to the best figs of 

 Europe. Ed. Enc. 



TUNA. 



A species of Indian fig, which grows in Chili, and is equal 

 to any European fig. Ed. Enc. 



SOUTHERN FRUITS. 



II. 



FRUITS WHICH FLOURISH ONLY IN COUNTRIES 

 SITUATED EITHER WITHIN, OR NOT VERY 

 REMOTE FROM, THE TROPICS. 



All the following fruits will probably succeed in the south of 

 Louisiana, and especially in the innumerable islands and maritime 

 districts of Florida, from the latitude of 24 20' to 30 north, and 

 many of them in the south of Alabama and Mississippi. 



ORANGE. (Citrus.) 



Scientific writers have divided the Orange tribe into five 

 leading species, which are all natives of Asia, viz., the 

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