& ExGyTedaG Ni. LV: 
bie O RAG Ni OsF eo TeBihes 
As China and Japan’ are the only»countries known to 
us, Where the Tea fhrub’ is cultivated for ufe, we may reafonably 
ude, that it is indigenous to one of them, if not to both. — 
What motive firft led the natives to ufe an infufion of Tea in 
the prefent manner is uncertain; but probably in order to-cor- 
rect the water, which is faid to be brackifh and. ill-tafted in 
many parts of thofe countries*. Of the good effects of Tea in 
fuch cafes, we have a remarkable proof in Kalm’s journey 
through North America, which his tranflator =e us in the 
following words: a 
“Tea is differently eet by different ome ag I 
think we would be as well, and our purfes much better, if we ~ 
were without tea and coffee. However, I muft be impartial, 
| and mention in praife of Tea, that if it be ufeful, it mutt cer- 
tainly be fo in fummer, on ‘fuch journies as mine, ee ee 
* Some authors add Siam alfo. Vid. Sim. Pauli ‘Comment. et Wilh. aa ag 
apud Simon. Pauli ‘comment. Nich. Tulpius obfery. Medicin. lib. IY. a dx, Lond. 
r64!. 
* Le Compte’s Journey through the Empire of Chin, P 112, ‘Staunson's Em, 
Oe, Vel. IL. p. ae and particularly p. 68. . : | 
