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It is probable that the Dutch, as they traded confiderably to 
Japan about the time Tea was introduced into Europe, firft 
brought this article from thence. But now China is the general 
mart, and the province Fokien, or Fo-chen', the principal 
country, that fupplies both the ae and BEArOpe with this. 
commodity. 3 
™ In this province, this fhrub is called Thee, or Te; and as the Europeans firft 
“Tanded here, that dialect has been preferved. Le Compte’s Journey through the 
Empire of China, p. 227. Du Halde’s Hiftory of China, Vol, IV. p, 21, 
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