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with neat matting of bamboo ; or in {quare wooden boxes lined 
with thin lead, dry leaves and paper, in which manner it is ex- 
ported to foreign countries. |The common Tea is put into 
_ bafkets, out of which it is emptied, and packed up in boxes or 
chefts as foon as it is fold to the Europeans‘. 
One thing fhould be mentioned to their credit; when their 
harveft of Tea is finifhed, each family fails not to teftify, by 
fome Sen are rite, their pra reaee to the Giver. ) 
; There z are feveral difgufting circumftances attending the preparation of Tea, 
Ofbeck fays, the Chinefe fervants tread the Tea into the chefts with their naked. 
feet. Voyage to China, Vol. I. p, 252. Sir George Staunton makes a fimilar re- 
mark, Vol. II. p. 466. - 
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