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A fimilar fort is alfo called Udfi Tsjaa, and Tacke Sacki 
Tsjaa, from the particular places where it grows. ‘The peculiar 
care and nicety obferved in gathering the Tea leaves in thefe 
places deferve to be noticed here, and we fhall therefore give 
fome account of one of them. 
 Udfi is a {mall Japanefe town, bordcnng on the fea, and not 
far diftant from the city of Miaco. ‘In the diftrict of this little 
town, is a pleafant mountain of the fame name, which is 
thought to poffefs the moft favourable foil and climate for the 
culture of Tea, on which account it is inclofed with hedges, 
and likewife furrounded with a broad ditch for farther fecurity. 
The trees are planted upon this mountain in fuch a manner as 
to form regular rows, with intervening walks. Perfons are ap- 
pointed to fuperintend the place, and preferve the leaves from 
injury or dirt. The labourers who are to gather them, for fome 
weeks before they begin, abftain from every kind of grofs food, 
or whatever might endanger communicating any ill flavour to 
the leaves; they pluck them alfo with the fame delicacy, 
having on a thin pair of gloves’. This fort of imperial or 
bloom Tea’ is afterwards prepared, and then efcorted by the 
chief furveyor of the works of this mountain, with a ftrong 
guard, and a numerous retinue,-to the emperor’s court, for 
the ufe of the Impenal family. 
2 The Gitne’e cautions are not ufed previous to cdlicttiag other forts of Tea. 
2 This cannot be the fort to which alfo the Dutch give that name, .as it is fold 
upon the fpot to the princes of the country, for much more than the common bloom 
Tea is fold for in Europe. Kampfer, Ameenit. Exotic. p. 617. ‘Hiftory of Japan, 
_ Appendix, p. 9. Neumann’s Chemiftry by Lewis, p. 373. 
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