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_ kept on the fire, which dries them by degrees, tll they grow 
brown, and rollup of themfelves in that manner we fee them. 
However, it is certain, from the Chinefe drawings, which 
exhibit a faithful picture, though rudely executed, of the 
whole procefs from beginning to end, that the Tea tree grows. 
for the moft part in hilly countries, on their rocky fummits, 
— fteep declivities; and it would feem by the pains the 
_ Chinefe are at, ‘in making paths, and fixing a kind of fcaf- 
- folds, to affift them, that thefe places afford the fineft Tea. 
It appears from thefe Saw, that the trees in general are 
not much taller than man’s height: The gatherers: of the 
* leaves are never reprefented but on the ground ; they make 
ufe of hooked fticks indeed, but thefe feem rather intended 
to draw the branches towards them, when they hang over. 
brooks, rivers, or from places difficult of accefs, than to 
bend down the tops. or “upper branches of the trees on plain 
ground. 
They pick the leaves as foon as gathered into different a 
and cure them nearly in the manner defcribed to be practifed 
by the Japanefe. They build a range of ftoves, like thofe- in 
a chemift’s laboratory, or great kitchen, where the men work, 
and curl the leaves in the pans themfelves. It feems alfo that 
they repeat the drying. They dry it likewife, after having — 
_ dpread it abroad in fhallow bafkets, in the fun; and, by the 
_ ‘means of fieves, feparate the larger. from the fmaller leaves, and 
: thefe again from the duft. => 
The Chinefe put the finer kinds of Tea into conic veflels, 
like fogae nes. made of SHORES, tin, or lead, covered 
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