8.8 C-F1.0.N.. Ill, 
AUTHORS UPON TEA. 
| Besipes the Authors already mentioned, feveral others 
have given fome account of this exotic ever-green, the principal 
of which are added for the farther information of thofe who 
may be defirous of confulting thefe writers on the fubject. 
Johann. Petr. Maffeus rerum Indicarum libro vr. pag. 108, | 
& lib. x11. pag. 242. Ludov, Almeyd. in eodem opere lib. 1v. 
Petr. Jarric. tom. JIL. lib. 11. cap. xvir. | 
Matth. Ric. de Chriftian. exped. apud Sinas, lib. 1. cap. v1?. 
L. Baptifta Ramufio, le Navigationi e viaggi nelli quali fi 
Contienne la Defcrittione dell’ Africa, del paefe del prete Joanni 
del mar Roffo, Calicut, ifole Moluchefe la Navigazione interno 
ilmondo. Venet. 1550. 1563. 1588. 3 Vol. Fol. Vol. IIL 
p: 15. | 
Tranflation in Englith of Giovanni Botaro', an eminent 
{talian author, Printed in 1590. 
_* This writer obferves, that the Chinefe have alfo an herb, out of which they 
prefs a delicate juice, which ferves them fora drink inftead of wine : it alfo preferves 
their health, and frees them from all thofe evils ‘« that the immediate ufe of wine 
doth breed unto us.” By the ufe the modern Chinefe make of Tea (who are a fober 
people) it can be nothing elfe. Anderfon’s Chronolog. Deduétion of Commerce. 
a ip Texeira, 
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