ce of which ar mao and long. | 
(= 38.) 
SECTION. VII. 
VARIETIES OF TEA. 
TF hos Been already obferved Sick. VI.) that many 
different fortments of Tea are made during the times of col- 
ce the leaves; and thefe are multiplied according to the 
goodnefs of their preparation, by which the varieties of Tea 
may be confiderably augmented '. . The diftinétions with us are 
much more limited, being generally confined to three principal 
eee es and five of bohea. — 
-T. Thofe of the former are, 
I. ‘Bing, imperial, or bloom Tea, with a large loofe << of 
a light green colour, and faint delicate fmell. 
ir. Hy-tiann, hi- -kiong, or hayfluen, known to us by the 
name of Hyfon Tea, fo called after an Eaft-India merchant of 
that name, who firft imported it into Europe. The leaves are 
clofely curled. and {mall, of a green colour, verging towards 
blue’. | | 
— = -Du Halde’s Hiftory of China, Vol. IV. p. 21. Ofbeck’s Voyage to China, 
: Vol. Lp. 246, et feq. 
=. 5 Ee: sacle have another kind of Hyfon Tea, which they call Hyfon-utchin, 
=e narrow {hort leaves. Another fort = green Tea they name Go-bé, the leaves 
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