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tend greatly to promote its ufe: however, we find its importa- 
tion and confumption were daily augmented ; and, before the 
conclufion of the laft century, it’ became generally known 
among the common people in England. 
It is foreign to my fubje&, or it would perhaps afford to a 
fpeculative’ mind no inconfiderable fatisfaction, to trace the 
confumption from its firft entrance at the Cuftom-houfe to the 
_ prefent amazing imports. At this time upwards of twenty-three 
millions of pounds are annually allowed for home confumption ; 
and the Eaft India Company have generally i in their warehoufes 
a fupply at leaft for one year. 
The following account of the importation of Tea, from 1776 
to 1795, as related by Sit George Staunton (Vol. II. p. 624), 
may be fatisfactory to the Reader : 
